Dedicated To Christina Li Lyrics - Cardboard Castles - Watsky

The first time I went back to homeroom from the hospital 

I thought that being more embarrassed was impossible 

But God, the second time it really turned my stomach 

Now I'm the kid who collapses and then spazzes out in public 

This time was a bowling alley, the first was in the yard 

And kids in middle school just watched me trip and kicked me hard 

Except this girl named Crissie Li, who flips around at her desk 

And gives me the world's biggest Disney card 

Wrote "best wishes," and "kisses" where she signed it 

3 feet by 2 feet, I coulda hid behind it 

I didn't like the pity from Christina Li though 

I'm thinking "Crissie, can't you see I'm busy being emo?" 

'Cause I think I mighta heard she maybe sorta liked me 

And since she wasn't cool enough I guess I took it lightly 

Had braces and glasses and wasn't Ms. Popular 

And so I didn't really give a thought to her 

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A heart breaking sounds like guitar strings snapping 

It's the notes of the song that'll never happen 

And the wind in the leaves is the sound of ghosts clapping 

But a heart breaking sounds like guitar strings snapping 

There's holes in my memory- it isn't photographic 

There's holes in my yearbook but the cut-out folks were plastic 

Ten years pass, I don't cross paths 

With half the people from my class again 'til we meet at Crissie's open casket 

Those who chose to ask it probably knew 

I could have dug in deeper if I'd wanted to 

But you couldn't tell a thing was off on the surface 

And I didn't know she was sick until I heard about her service 

She was born with a heart defect, used to the cold knife 

She'd been in and out of hospitals her whole life 

She knew the whole time, and never said why 

She felt my pain herself and helped me hold my head high 

The nicest folks are those who know the throes of crisis 

Though I know it's crime to twist her life to fit my own devices 

Why's it so hard to mourn, and then try to learn by this 

But lights that burn shortest 

Are the lights that burn brightest 

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Our 8th grade yearbook page for dedicating songs wasn't long 

Even in a school eleven hundred strong 

The yearbook advertised for months, but when it's said and done 

Crissie bought six, the third most of anyone 

Alvin got "Your Faith in Me" by Jessica Simpson 

Pebbles got Richard Marx's ballad "At the Beginning" 

It feels like sloppy poetry the way her life would end 

After sending Mariah Carrey's "Any Time You Need a Friend" 

But corniness is honesty that's wrapped in cliché 

And most slow jam lyrics aren't shit I'm brave enough to say without a smirk 

But before she went to dirt she left us finally 

"I Will Remember You" to Geoff, Mike, Bry and me 

You can plot if you must 

Say it's obviously fate, or explain that God is just 

But all I know is that until my body's dust 

I will try to think of her as much as Crissie thought of us 

This one goes out to Christina