Who showed you how to fight back
To leap to your feet, teeth bared in fury whenever
Someone looked at you or someone else the wrong way?
How did you learn to sharpen your fingernails
On the chalkboards of empty classrooms
Just in case he doesn’t really mean that smile on his face?
Where did you learn that in order to
Fight your demons and come out alive
You needed sharp reflexes and a sharper tongue?
Because I was raised in rooms of gilded
Gold and silver that almost but didn’t quite
Hide the peeling papered walls,
My mouth so full of silver spoons
I never thought to ask how the world really worked
And now, I’m still hoping
Some of that silver rubbed off onto my tongue
God knows that’s all I have left
MY FINGER GUNS HAVE LONG SINCE RUN OUT OF BULLETS, IF THEY WERE EVER LOADED AT ALL | k.y
To leap to your feet, teeth bared in fury whenever
Someone looked at you or someone else the wrong way?
How did you learn to sharpen your fingernails
On the chalkboards of empty classrooms
Just in case he doesn’t really mean that smile on his face?
Where did you learn that in order to
Fight your demons and come out alive
You needed sharp reflexes and a sharper tongue?
Because I was raised in rooms of gilded
Gold and silver that almost but didn’t quite
Hide the peeling papered walls,
My mouth so full of silver spoons
I never thought to ask how the world really worked
And now, I’m still hoping
Some of that silver rubbed off onto my tongue
God knows that’s all I have left
MY FINGER GUNS HAVE LONG SINCE RUN OUT OF BULLETS, IF THEY WERE EVER LOADED AT ALL | k.y