You Don't Stop to Listen

Still you don't stop to listen

and I'm watching myself choke on fears and inhibitions

I'm watching history as it falls off my old bookshelf 

and repeats itself again that tale I wish weren't part of myself

So you're making me feel bad because you don't like a critic

but I have to change this time around and I think the truth is worth it

And you wouldn't know 'cause you've worked hard to not know me

But I've been here before and watched my world fall down around me

So go ahead, be mad at me, make me feel like shit

Beating me makes you feel better, but unlike you I'll take it.

Write down that I'm wrong and I'll fold it up real small

I'll jam it in my heart and pretend it makes me strong

But all the crumpled notes and all that bloody history

turns into the blood that's running through my arteries

Eventually all that pain teaches a lesson

The Girl Who Gave a Damn becomes a woman to be reckoned with