Let Me Down

She's never alone

Because she's scared of what she might say to herself

Always drinking in the backroom of the bar

Where everyone turns in

A half-hearted grin

She wont be afraid

As long as that prescription keeps on going through

And all the happy pills make her look like

A cardboard cut out of someone

I used to learn from

But on the phone

She's telling everyone

That there was a blue sky she left behind

And there's a place

That no one knows about

Away from integrity

She writes a book in her head that nobody will read

Whatever you say

Please don't talk about the time when she was young

Apparently that was a different person and

So long ago it's strange to me

There's no history

But there's a past

And she's telling everyone

It must be a garden that wouldn't grow

With roots of shame

Too sensitive to blame

Herself as we watch her drown

I can't save the queen without a kingdom or a crown

Somewhere in this lonely game of sympathy

There is a selfish dream

That makes me sick

Standing on the high-wire while you're on the ground

To you what is dangerous

The safe and sound

You let me down