Two

In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up

When a doctor came to tell me, "Enough is enough"

Brought me out into the hall, I could have sworn it was haunted

He told me something that I didn't know that I wanted

To hear that there was nothing that I could do to save you

The choir's gonna sing and this thing is gonna kill you

Something in my throat made my next words shake

And something in the wires made the lightbulbs break

There was glass inside my feet and raining down from the ceiling

It opened up the scars that had just finished healing

It tore apart the canyon running down your femur

I thougth that it was beautiful, it made me a believer

And as it opened I could hear you howling from your room

But I hid out in the hall until the hurricane blew.

When I reappered and tried to give you something for the pain

Came to hating me again and just sang your refreain

You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare

You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair

Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying

They should have listened, they thought that you were lying

Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up

Built the gears in your head, now he greases them up

And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating

Eighty-seven pounds and this all bears repeating

Tell me when you think that we became so unhappy

Wearing silver rings with nobody clapping

When we moved here together we were so dissappointed

Sleeping out of tune with our dreams disjointed

It killed me to see you getting always rejected

But I didn't mind the things you threw, the phones I deflected

I didn't mind you blaming me for your mistakes

I just held you in the doorframe through all of the earthquakes

But you packed up your clothes in that bag every night

I would try to grab your ankles, what a pitiful sight

But after over a year, I stopped trying to stop you

From stomping out that door, coming back like you always do

Well, no one's gonna fix it for us, no one can

You say that no one's gonna listen, no one understands

So there's no open doors, there's no way to get through

There's no other witnesses, just us two

There's two people living in one small room

From your two half-families tearing at you

Two ways to tell the story, no one worries

Two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry

Two people talking inside your brain

Two people believing that I'm the one to blame

Two different voices coming out of your mouth

While I'm too cold to care and too sick to shout

You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare

You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair

Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying

They should have listened, they thought that you were lying

Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up

Built the gears in your head, now he greases them up

And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating

Eighty-seven pounds and this all bears repeating