Brass Beam

I took a pill
 I went to sleep for the first time in weeks
 You kept me up
 With all your manic energy
 I had to go
 I put it out just like a cigarette
 I'd never be a girl
 You'd like or trust or you'd respect
 When I think about it I wanna punch the wall
 When I remember everything I wonder
 If I'll always feel small
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 You look for me
 In the broken glass and styrofoam
 Painting yourself
 As a sufferer, a stepping stone
 You work real hard
 To herd your friends into a gallery
 Narcissistic injury
 Disguised as masterpiece
 I just wanna run, yeah, I don't wanna fight
 I just want to sing my songs
 And sleep through the night
 Ooh...
 Ooh...
 Ooh...
 I endured your criticism
 Self-loathing and all your doubt
 I held you up above myself
 Trying to ride it out
 I got lost in your rendition of reality
 All my offering
 Rendered boring hyperbole
 Couldn't see the sun from there, just a beam
 I thought it would never come out, yeah
 I had to...
 Couldn't see the sun from there, just a beam
 I thought it would never come out, yeah
 I had to leave
 Ooh...
 Ooh...
 Ooh...