"Lady Melancholy"

Pay down your tuition
Admittance requires the following:
A degree, some damn piece of paper
Or equivalent in life experience

Well, just what the hell is that?
I could write some of those degree-holders
Up against a wall, I've lived and I've died
And I don't qualify at all

Black sheep of the family
I'm the, one who wanted more
Nobody else tried not to settle
So nobody else had quite as spectacular a fall...
Just me...
Lady Melancholy, destined to fall

Delusions of grandeur
You'd better get out of your head right now
You've spent, twenty-two damn years on this
Are you stubborn, or just stupid

Well, just who the hell are you?
Can you say you'd be here today if you once
Wanted to be dead more than you wanted anything
Well I'm still here

I'm a failure, but I'm here
I know how sweet dying can feel
But I'm here
And you know what? I'm not altogether unhappy
I'm just so damned angry and so damned fed up
With being like some little spec of idiotic dust
The system kicks around, oh no

This is reality, this is the real world
And everybody gets rewarded for avoiding it
Mommy and Daddy and your 1.4 brothers and sisters
Handed you life on a silver platter
Money grows on trees, happiness is free
And that, that is equal to "life experience"?
I don't think so!

Black sheep of the family
I'm the, one who wanted more
Nobody else tried not to settle
So nobody else had quite as spectacular a fall...
Just me...
Lady Melancholy, destined to fall

Pay down your tuition
Admittance requires the following:
Walk through hell, and get rescued
Or equivalent in education

Well, wouldn't it be nice?
Maybe then I'd be cut out for this life
But I'm fighting, nobody'll get the satisfaction
Of breaking my will...

Black sheep of the family
I'm the, one who wanted more
Nobody else tried not to settle
So nobody else had quite as spectacular a fall...
Just me...
Lady Melancholy, destined to fall

Just me
That is all

-copyright 2004 White Gardenia Music
Words and music by Bree Dunsmore
All rights reserved.

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