Black and Blue

They tell you all the time
Girls should be wise and choose the one
But you'll be taken down as soon as
You have the nerve to do it
 
Criticize the choice you made
Blaming for things you can't unmake
Remember all your old mistakes
Depreciate your merits
And all your highest grades
 
I wonder what is left of me
If I lost my fragile grit?
 
I've got
Too much to think tonight
They say it's sad but this is what I talk about
And I stay
Awake
Till the afterlight
I can feel my eyes burning
How can a person demand anything from me
If it's something that he won't do
So why should I still want you if you make me black and blue?
 
How long will it be cool
Rheumy eyes and playing fool
When you can't break the curse
Justify all my ambitions
 
And my hands are getting tired
To carry weight from burning fire
I guess I'm wasting my old time
Trying to get your
Recognition?
 
Maybe someday I'm gonna meet you
It's a fever fear
The kind of blindfold on your eyes
You wear on seventeen
You'll have no words to say
You'll pass me by down the street
I'm happy coz there's no expectation I should meet