I'm fine
He said I had a silly little emergency
Implied I might just need some time out of town
Sunshine, it's only just the lightest shade of anxiety
He sighed
It's not like you're the type to break down

Had to comply, let well-wishers be
Knowing that I only will fix me
I'll find out why it is she secretly
Watching me

I tried to warn him but I'm always just so misunderstood
Glass-eyed, as though there's something "other" to me
My guide is hiding in this seasick swirling and so I stood
Bedside, until it had me feeling creepy

Night after night, I suppose, after midnight, patterns unfroze
Comforting fright, vertigoes, when she goes

Fixated eyes, yellow gown
Sickly moonrise, smoldering frown
She's in disguise, creeping round
Upside-down

I cried, imagined how a chamber looks from the other side of bars
A bride, a canopy, a tired nightgown
Abide the self-important ostentatious aroma of cigars
Inside, two tablets and a bed they nailed down

She spies, whispering replies to my cries
As night falls, clawing at walls, she crawls

Fixated eyes, yellow gown
Sickly moonrise, smoldering frown
She's in disguise, creeping round
Upside-down, round and round

You told us lies, oh no no no no
She is too wise not to know
She hears my cries, weeping
Let me go

How could you
None of you know
You're gonna know
How could you
How could you

I am getting angry enough to do something desperate

Eyes dried, the picture of a righteous creature ecstatic to be free
My pride is back together and my mind sound
Deride a remedy they only cooked up for pacifying me
Outside, he's struggling to break the door down

Oh she cries, and I whisper replies
Night falls, clawing at walls, I crawl

Fixated eyes, yellow gown
Sickly moonrise, smoldering frown
I'm in disguise, creeping
Round and round, upside-down

You told me lies, oh no no no
I am too wise not to know
I hear your cries, reaping
What you sow