Carrie

You know what Norma calls her?

Scary White, ha-ha

Do you love it? (Scary White, Scary White, Scary White)

(Scary White, Scary White, Scary White, Scary White)

That's not my name!

Doesn't anybody ever get it right?

Carrie!

When'll they remember I'm Carrie White?

Carrie!

Is it any harder to say than "goddamn toad" and "spastic" and "weirdo" and "dumb bitch"?

Doesn't anybody think that I can hear?

I hear!

'Specially when I got them screaming in my ear

I hear!

Every day they mock me and push me around 'til I drop

If I had a wish, God, I wish they'd stop

When will they? (Scary White, Scary White, Scary White)

I wish they'd (Scary White, Scary White, Scary White)

When will they? When will they? When will they?

Sometimes their hatred is out of control

God, how they hurt me!

Mama says suffering is good for the soul

But they hurt me

And if I could, I'd bring them all down to their knees!

I'd make them sorry forever for teasing Carrie

Carrie, Carrie!

I will not cry

I'm okay

I try so hard to play their way

Why do they find it so hard to say Carrie?

Why do they always treat me so bad?

They all know my name

It's Carrie!

I don't know why they all get so mad

It's always the same!

What's going on deep in me?

All of these feelings suddenly

If I am changing, will I still be Carrie?

Or what if I am somebody new?

Imagine, the things I might do!

I might take a chance, I've always wondered how

Or maybe I'll dance and try hard to laugh more than I do now

And the world will open its eyes

And for once the whole world will recognize Carrie!

Then all those people who scream night and day

"Poor praying Carrie!"

They'd see the new me

And they might even say

"Look! It's Carrie!"

And finally, I'd hear that word

Sounding so sweet!

Thousands of voices forever repeating, "Carrie"

"Carrie, Carrie!"

I am the sound of distant thunder

A color, a flame!

I'm Carrie!

I am a song of endless wonder

That no one will claim

But someday

Oh my, someday!

Someone will know my name!