I Know You
(by Henry Rollins )
You are too short
You had bad skin
You couldn't talk to them very well
Words didn't seemed to work
They lied when they came out of your mouth
You tried so hard to understand them
You wanted to be part of what was happening
You saw them having fun
And it seemed like such a mistery, almost magic
Made you think that there was something wrong with you
You looked in the mirror trying to find it
You thought that you were ugly
And that everyone was looking at you
So you learned to be invisible,
To look down,
To avoid conversation,
The hours, days, weekends
Ah, the weekend-nights alone
Where were you?
In the basement?
In the attic?
In your room?
Working some job, just to have something to do
Just to have a place to put yourself
Just to have a way to get away from them
A chance to get away from the ones that made you feel so strange, And ill at ease inside yourself
Did you ever get invited to one of their parties?
You sat and wondered if you would go or not
For hours you imagined the scenarios that might transpire
They would laugh at you
If you would know what to do
If you had the right things on
If they would notice that you came from a different planet
Did you get all brave in your thoughts?
Like you were going to be able to go in there and deal with it and have a great time?
Did you think, that you might be `the life of the party'?
That all these people are going to talk to you?
And you would find out that you were wrong,
That you had a lot of friends,
And that you weren't so strange after all
Did you end up going?
Did they mess with you?
Did the