How do you know you’re different
When you stand alone?
You don’t –
You exist in blissful ignorance
3, 4, 5 years old…
Until people come into your life
And they let you know
They stare, and they talk
And they chase you round the block
They grab you and they beat you
And you just don’t know why
But you know it’s something,
Something about you
It’s everything you forget
It’s too much you pouring into them
It’s never starting anything
It’s never finishing anything
Then doing everything it all at once
It’s staring out the window
At the boundless blue sky
Imagining that you can fly
While a teacher drones on and on
About what’s supposed to be important;

And they won’t dance with you
They leave you standing against the wall
Wondering at the point of it all

Until you realize with stunning clarity
The solution to this shit that is life –
Shed your skin, become the others
Talk like them and walk like them
Until you forget what it is to be you
And you wake up every day
With the burden to be new

A lways
D ifferent
H orribly
D ifferent