Sometimes I look to the stars and wonder

Yeah I, begin to cry and I wonder

If they remember Karen Carpenter

They must think they’re God to take her thunder

How they took spirit and her fire

How they made her walk upon that wire

Feared falling from freedom, jumping too far

From those who tell us this is who you are

One of the greatest singers lost her voice

And life as they buried her soprano

Spitting on her grave as they made the choice

Broke down Britney and Demi Lovato

Play doctors but can’t diagnose your self

When the ones who are sick aren’t me, but you

You must look in that mirror and get help

Instead of me or stars we look up to

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The same people who say to love our self

Tell us we are nothing and hurt our health

Why do you want to keep us so thin?

Do you fear our strength, the women within?

So holding us down was all you could do

To keep us in your shadows, beneath you

Laughed at Mariah and then Christina

Said it was drugs or anorexia

And then it happened to Lady Gaga

As we the tabloids and magazines

And watch the video on TMZ

Saying her songs should be named Porker Face

And Papparazi need the wide lens out

So go on, yeah go ahead, tell those kids!

While we tell them that they are worthless

Not to become bullies, or be afraid

That they can become anything they want

When you don’t mean a damn thing that you say

The countless excuses for real writers

Make their money yet none will know their name

As woman after woman gets whiter,

Thinner, blonder, and are still put to shame

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So what becomes stronger, my loving me

Or my hating myself for what I see?

I will not starve myself or purge myself

Or worship your false image; hurt myself

Hate myself as I slowly kill myself

Won’t take those pills myself, or drink your shakes

To fit inside the mold of your dream weight

While you fill my head with your nightmares

Haunting my thoughts and killing my daydreams

Dreams to design my own line or to act

It’s been almost 20 years in this fight

Me against my body, darkness vs. light

But I will not surrender, will not kneel

Or take it as you say your lies are real

Now, the only time I bow is to pray

Not to porcelain or for what you say

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It starts with one small lie

One that you tell yourself

That you will never grow apart

You will be there, no matter what

And, you can bear anything

Together and apart

Until one day, you wake up

And you know you cannot return to dreams

And relive that first kiss

Or all that came before

And, it hits all at once

Though it all took years or months

That same cute laugh or crooked smile,

The way they trace their lips

Or how they stroke your hair;

These things that drew you in

And got inside your head

 Become like shrieking chalkboards

In the back of your mind

First, you do anything

To find time together, to find a way

Now, you do anything

Just to break away

And, what tears you up

And pierces the heart

Is that no matter how near you get,

And often the closer you are,

To where you feel each other’s heartbeats

You still see their smirks, their tears,

And everything between

Through any distance, and in the dark,

You still know that the closer you are,

You still could not feel any further apart