In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up,
When a doctor came to tell me, "Enough is Enough"
He brought me out into the hall, I could have sworn it was haunted,
And told me something that I didn't know that I wanted to hear:
That there was nothing that I could do to save you,
The choirs gonna sing, and this thing is gonna kill you
Something in my throat made my next words shake,
And something in the wires made the light bulbs break
There was glass inside my feet and raining down from the ceiling,
It opened up the scars that had just finished healing
It tore apart the canyon running down your femur,
I though that it was beautiful, it made me a believer
And as it opened I could hear you howling from your room,
But I hid out in the hall until the hurricane blew
When I reappeared and tried to give you something for the pain
You came to hating me again, and just sang your refrain:

You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare
You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair,
Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying
They should have listened, they thought that you were lying
Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up,
Build the gears in your head, now he greases them up
And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating
"Eighty seven pounds!" and this all bears repeating

Tell me when you think that we became so unhappy,
Wearing silver rings with nobody clapping
When we moved here together we were so disappointed,
Sleeping out of tune with our dreams disjointed
It killed me to see you getting always rejected,
But I didn't mind the things you threw, the phones I deflected
I didn't mind you blaming me for your mistakes,
I just held you in the door frame though all of the earthquakes
But you packed up your clothes in that bag every night,
And I would try to grab your ankles, what a pitiful sight
But after over a year, I stopped trying to stop you
From stomping out that door, coming back like you always do
Well no ones gonna fix it for us, no one can
You say that, 'No one's gonna listen, and no one understands'
So there's no open doors, and there's no way to get though,
There's no other witnesses, just us two
There's two people living in one small room,
From your two half-families tearing at you,
Two ways to tell the story no one worries,
Two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry,
Two people talking inside your brain,
Two people believing that I'm the one to blame,
Two different voices coming out of your mouth,
While I'm too cold to care and too sick to shout

You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare
You were just a little kid, and they cut your hair,
Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying
They should have listened, they thought that you were lying
Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up,
Build the gears in your head, now he greases them up
And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating
"Eighty seven pounds!" and this all bears repeating