Caged Bird

I don't need your false affection
I don't need your serpent smiles
Drawing me into your garden
The devil hides behind angel eyes

I'll erase you from my memory
I'll delete you from my mind
I had to close my eyes to how i felt
To realize that i was blind

I don't need your razor blade caresses
Those subtle cuts upon my soul
And i'm not gonna put myself in prison
For something that you stole

You know there's no poison in this venom
And there's no hatred in these words
It's the pain that sparks this fire
And swells the river of fuel it burns

I'll erase you from my memory
I'll delete you from my mind
I had to close my eyes to how i felt
To realize that i was blind

And don't need another nail in my coffin
And i don't need a stake through my heart
And i don't need you to keep telling me
That what i did drove us apart

I don't need your candy-coated love
Sweet at first, bitter inside
And i don't need to mend your broken wings
If you won't try once more to fly

A closed casket for our twisted love
And i'm alone to mourn this loss
I built this with unknowing hands
Now i alone must bear this cross

I'll erase you from my memory
I'll delete you from my mind
I had to close my eyes to how i felt
To realize that i was blind

I'll erase you
I'll delete you
I'll erase you
I'll erase you
I'll delete you


I'll erase you

I'm so perfect you say
I'm so special, no one can compare
How can you see all these things in me?
I can't believe you

I'm looking in my funhouse mirror
I'm disgusted by what i see
I strain to catch a glimpse of the light
You claim to see around me

And the more i try to run away
The more you pull me back
And the more you try to love me
The more that i attack
I just can't see what you see in me


You want to destroy self-portraits that i paint
Through picasso's eyes
But it's hard to discard
Weapons that i use
In my daily self-destruction

And the more i try to run away
The more you pull me back
And the more you try to love me
The more that i attack
I just can't see what you see in me


I'm sitting on the corner of paranoid and hopelessness
Waiting, waiting
For you to take me away
I'm always trying to get rid of you
When what i really want
Is for you to stay

And the more i try to run away
The more you pull me back
And the more you try to love me
The more that i attack
I just can't see what you see in me


I want to see what you see
I wish i could see what you see
In me

When i think of your hands sliding down my back
When i think of your sweat on my skin
And your moist breath whispering in my ear
I ... i ... i
I get sick
Sick to my stomach

I pretended to love you longer than i did
I wish i could erase the images i see
Your satisfied grin, you lying beneath me, dear
I ... i ... i
I get sick
Sick to my stomach

How could i let you get so close?
You slithered in when i was needy
By the time i saw it for what it was
It was too late to put on the brakes

When i think of the way people are looking at me
Like i lead you on -- they're wrong
They don't know the whole story
And now you turn me on, oh you turn me on
About as much as sandpaper masturbation, dear
I ... i ... i

What flash of insanity
Could have made me
Do what i did?

With all your false maturity
It's a lie
You're nothing but a kid

You devoured my skin
How could i let you in
And out and in and out and in and out and in and out?
I ... i ... i

When i think of what never should have been
It makes my head spin
I ... i ... i
I get sick
Sick to my stomach

I think i'm gonna puke