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 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
 And then
 She breaks
 Sometimes that's really all it takes
 A word of kindness and she breaks
 And then the sum of damage done
 Spills out on stale linoleum
 Sometimes that's really all it takes
 A gentle touch and then she breaks
 To see the sum of damage done
 Stain this linoleum
 Sometimes that's really all it takes
 A word or touch and then we break
 And all this world's linoleum can't hold the sum of damage
 Done
 She's becoming her last casualty
 If she breaks then at least she'll be free
 But she keeps it together once more
 And runs another day to fight another war
 Itsy bitsy spider
 Climbed the water spout
 Down came the rain and washed the spider out
 Now she stays on the ground
 So she'll never fall
 See, she would rather drown than lose control