Fourteen today, and you went dancing.Music mixed with laughter,
and boys can be so immature.They made you drink a bit too
much,Everything's a blur to feel and touch.Did he really
like you? Well, how can you be sure enough?Twenty-three today,
and all your friends are getting married.You say they're so
scared of being alone,So self-righteously you march through
teachers' college.Still so much in life you gotta get to
know,Seems like everybody's so content to move so slow.And
when you think you've got your life so well-controlled, it
slips away.And the years, like raindrops falling from your life,
are washed away,washed away.And you're so brilliant,
you're so gifted, so sensitive, so strong,As you hide
behind your barricade of words,But no one got close enough to
you to have ever heard.I met you at a party.You were drunk and
full of world advice, and I was getting nervous.And you said you
had a child who was a genius,And you smiled as the living room
transformed into your circus.Someone whispered you were 39
today,A face so young, eyes so old. You collapsed into the
cornerLike somebody up on verbs, you near seduced me with your
verbs as I reachedout for you,You said over and over,"Oh, when
you think you've got your life so well-controlled, it slips
away.And the years, like raindrops falling from your life, are
washed away,washed away."And you're so brilliant,
you're so gifted, so tragic and so wrong,As you hide behind
your barricade of words,But you know, no one got close enough to
you to have ever heard.Children come home from school, shout and
laugh with all their life.Shut them out fast before you think of
the past, turn out all of your lights.Go to bed, go to sleep,
don't think, don't feel as the nighttime owns
aprayer.But maybe somewhere deep inside there's some
meaning aching to be shared.Fourteen today, and you were
dancing
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