my favorite lyrics from folklore

• and if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow
• there goes the most shameless woman this town has ever seen, she had a marvelous time ruining everything
• i didn't have it in myself to go with grace, 'cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave, and if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?
• i want you to know, i'm a mirrorball, i'll show you every version of yourself tonight, i'll get you out on the floor, shimmering beautiful, and when I break, it's in a million pieces
• i want you to know, i'm a mirrorball, i can change everything about me to fit in
• i've never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try
• please picture me in the weeds, before I learned civility, I used to scream ferociously, any time I wanted
• pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down
• they told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential
• and you wanna scream, don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby", look at this godforsaken mess that you made me, you showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else, don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby", look at this idiotic fool that you made me, you taught me a secret language I can't speak with anyone else
• and you know damn well, for you, I would ruin myself, a million little times
• time, mystical time, cutting me open, then healing me fine, were there clues I didn't see?, and isn't it just so pretty to think, all along there was some, invisible string, tying you to me?
• every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy, what about that? and when you say I seem angry, I get more angry
• with you I serve, with you I fall down, down, watch you breathe in, watch you breathing out, out
• only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany, just one single glimpse of relief, to make some sense of what you've seen
• I never had the courage of my convictions, as long as danger is near, and it's just around the corner, darlin', 'cause it lives in me, no, I could never give you peace
• would it be enough if i could never give you peace?
• and you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child, give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other
• I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come if you're standin' with me