Linoleum

She keeps the world at bay

With walls built to stand come-what-may

And with that coldness on display, they held until today

She would hold her own

Running all alone

Ridding her road of every grain

To stay in control

But now

She cries

Alive

Suddenly she is down on all four

And the walls will support her no more

Cries her eyes out like never before

Onto this linoleum

The bottled up and stored

She's won every war

And when she's out that door

She will push ahead of you, frowning at the poor

She would move so fast not to end up last

Aiming for the finish line

To smile at those she'd passed

But now

She cries

Alive

Suddenly she is down on all four

And the walls will support her no more

Cries her eyes out like never before

Onto this linoleum

The bottled up. And stored --

And sometimes

Oh, just sometimes

That's really all it takes:

A hand on her shoulder

Then she breaks

Sometimes that's really all it takes:

(Yes then)

A word of kindness and she breaks

(She breaks)

And then the sum of damage done

(Well she breaks)

Spills out on stale linoleum

(She breaks)

Sometimes that's really all it takes:

(She breaks)

A gentle touch and then she breaks

(She breaks)

To see the sum of damage done

(She breaks)

Stain this linoleum

(Oh, she breaks)

Sometimes that's really all it takes:

(Oh, she breaks)

A word or touch and then we break

(Oh, she breaks)

And all this world's linoleum

(She breaks)

Can't hold the sum of damage done --

(She's becoming her last casualty)

Itsy bitsy Spider

Climbed the water spout

(If she breaks then at last she'll be free)

Down Came the Rain

And washed the spider out

(But she keeps it together once more)

Now she stays on the ground

So she'll never fall

(And runs another day to fight another war)

See she would rather drown

Than lose control