Two words

You were always slow to run away.
You should’ve know better
Than to give me the chance,
The benefit of the doubt.

I’m the kind that will cut you down,
Beat you bare
from the inside out.

Just one chance to blow.

 You should’ve known,
By the way I rip

at the scars on my own arms,
Across my face,
Everywhere,
On the trail I left behind.

 Two words, Baby:

Background check

But you can save me,
So you think.
You plan to be my net,
Wrapping gauze around your head
from that

accidental fall....

Your bandages cut off my circulation,
And I don’t need another nurse
To wrap me up like a mummy,
Like some Egyptian freak.

Don’t need
No one,
No more.

This time, I’m gonna fly solo.
No one to keep happy,
No one noticing
If I don’t.

Let me crash and bleed,
Without your waiting triage.
Quarantine me like some bad disease.
Nobody bother to look for the cure,

Except you.
Until you catch it too.

Two words, Baby:
Get lost.

Don’t try and find me
Under all my rage.
I’m in my cage
for a reason.
You flatter yourself if you think

You got a key.

They buried it,
Long ago.
I don’t remember who,
But it wasn’t you

So just stop

Looking at me that way you do,
When you’re surprised to see 

the hope drain out
of my skin.
Nothin new to begin.
No place to start over.

I’m not trying to protect you,
Keep you in a place
Where things are safe and rosy.

 I’ll keep you in your place.

Two words, Baby:
Restraining order.

I don’t need the aggravation.
I never said I was Mary Poppins.
Feeding the birds
is boring as hell,
and wishing wells aren’t worth my time.

Serving time,
For words that I spoke,
Isn’t a joke when I warned you
Of the way that I am.

Two words, Baby:
No good,

From the day I was born,
Nothing but scorn.
Don’t try to change
what we both know.
My words are straight today,
Tomorrow, they ain’t.
‘Cause I can lay on the thickest
layer of bullshit you’ve ever seen.

And I can make you believe

Anything.