For Katie Lyrics - Singles - Kimya Dawson

they can't be talking to me 

this isn't real 

how can i stop the nothing? 

i'm just a little girl 

three thousand miles between most of your friends 

and you wish they could meet they have so much in common 

and you can't believe that you are in portland 

with your good friend from new york on vacation 

the world it is shrinking, pathways intertwining 

some of it's planning a lot of it's timing 

suddenly face to face with jake and jack 

you ask them to sing you their songs back to back 

jack says "i'm alone but i'm not scared" 

then jake says "i am alone but not afraid" 

i wish i could be that brave 

but the second person's always in the way 

i tried to hide you 

where no one could find you 

but you were a baby and i was a little girl 

they caught us and brought us back to their world 

that's when i decided the only place i could hide 

was in the stories and dreams in the seams of my mind 

i was so busy dreaming, running from demons 

i didn't even hear you screaming 

yesterday you got an email from prague 

that said me and my friends think your band really rocks 

you can't believe it's all really real 

you don't know what to say, you don't know how to feel 

you think it's a joke just like in the sixth grade 

when nick asked you out then he laffed in your face 

you prepare for the worst when you go out on stage 

you block out the crowd, you dissociate 

the music's your blood and the words are your breath 

you sing and you sing like it's all there is left 

rock-a-bye baby, beautiful thing 

don't ever, ever let them clip your wings 

when the best and the worst coexist there's a fist fight 

between what's left and the right of way 

i hope you believe me when i say 

things will get better give it one more day 

it's hard to sleep when the lullabys are songs 

you don't want to miss you could listen all night long 

and you can't believe that you are in texas 

and jeff lightning lewis is sitting right next to you 

singing the song about the three quarter moon 

you squint your eyes and look inside you 

and the fractions and fragments all become whole 

the music erases the pain in your soul 

the tears in your brain that your memory saved 

evaporate and skate away