Your little friend from school
has got the flat next door,
and there’s a baby, but the boyfriend
doesn’t visit anymore.
He went to London,
like it was the land of milk and honey,
now he lets it go to voicemail
when she’s tapping him for money.
She sees people on the TV
holding champagne glasses,
their teeth and their nails
and their perfect little asses.
And she looks out the window
at the blocks of flats, and wonders
- what you have to do,
to get a life like that.
CHORUS
Sometimes she lights up
like a Christmas tree,
sometimes she’s here and gone,
just like a spark.
Sometimes she twinkles like a little star
when it’s already way too dark.
She gets low and she gets high,
and it ends up in a crash,
and she shows up at your door
with her wrists all slashed.
She’s wired and she’s wild, and
in tremendous pain -
but she’s way too cute to
actually open up a vein.
CHORUS
They told us all we had potential
if we just stuck to the tracks,
but it’s hard to concentrate when all
your luck slips through the cracks.
She always thought her family
was living with a curse.
When she opened up her eyes,
that’s what she whispered to the nurse.
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