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Jerks

from Get Better by Sarah Marston

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You got me by the mask string
tugging it down trying to show my face to the people
and i know it's just a girl thing
but sometimes the excuses don't out-weigh the evil
a little needle poking in my side
it's the regal status you wear with a crown
and i've tried to remove it from my sight
but i guess it's that i wear a mask and you wear a crown
we're all in white and i think that means we're going down
with the ship built to hold in our pride
or to provide shelter from the elements having rubbed our hide
the wrong way. you know what they say.
same shirt different day
i think it's time i pay
turn my dollars into change do some laundry and stray
from the trail all hailed to produce gold from hay
melt the frail fuckers limping along the way
it's a long hike to the top and we won't get there today
so let you're conscience fray who knows how long that would take
and is it even worth it to finally hear somebody spray
"you took the cake, you're the jerk no one could shake."?
won't you be the only one around who gives a shit or dares to make
a move toward your body to congratulate?
it's a bit obvious to me that a good friend is all you need
an honest word from someone who heard
your caged bird sing when you chose to have him freed
the day a little see promised to throw up a big tree
across the sky like graffiti in the streets of the cities
where i didn't grow up and neither did you and that's neat
but for all the trash we talk about those rabid dogs who compete
you're still trying to tug my mask down and i'm still grabbing at your crown
so here is something that i found.
there was this sound in the ground
felt my heart start to pound
laid my head back in the grass felt the whole world turn around (on me.)
jerks.

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from Get Better, released January 1, 2011
written and produced by Sarah Marston

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i'm 20 years old, tall for a girl, and i don't know what i'm doing at all.

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