She keeps the world at bay With walls built to stand come-what-may And with that coldness on display they held until today She would hold her own Running all alone Ridding her road of every grain To stay in control
But now She cries ALIVE
Suddenly she is down on all four And the walls will support her no more Cries her eyes out like never before Onto this linoleum The bottled up and stored
She’s won every war And when she’s out that door She will push ahead of you Frowning at the poor She would move so fast Not to end up last Aiming for the finish line To smile at those she'd passed
But now She cries ALIVE
Suddenly she is down on all four And the walls will support her no more Cries her eyes out like never before Onto this linoleum The bottled up and stored
And sometimes Oh, just sometimes That’s really all it takes: A hand on her shoulder And then she breaks
Sometimes that's really all it takes: A word of kindness and she breaks And then the sum of damage done Spills out on stale LINOLEUM (...she breaks)
Sometimes that's really all it takes: A gentle touch and then she breaks To see the sum of damage done Stain this LINOLEUM (...she breaks)
Sometimes that's really all it takes: A word or touch and then we break And all this world's LINOLEUM Can't hold the sum of damage DONE
She's becoming her last casualty If she breaks then at last she'll be free But she keeps it together once more And runs another day To fight another war
Itsy bitsy spider Climbed the water spout Down came the rain and washed the spider out Now she stays on the ground So she'll never fall See, she would rather drown than lose CONTROL