Henry Rollins - I Know You lyrics

I know you You are too short You had bad skin You couldn't talk to them very well Words didn't seem to work They lied when they came out of your mouth You tried so hard to understand them You wanted to be part of what was happening You saw them having fun And it seemed like such a mystery Almost magic Made you think there was something wrong with you You'd look in the mirror trying to find it You thought you were ugly And everyone was looking at you So you learned to be invisible To look down To avoid conversation The hours, days, weekends Ah the weekend nights alone Where were you? In the basement? In the attic? In your room? Working some job? Just to have something to do? Just to have a place to put yourself? Just to have a way to get away from them A chance to get away from the ones who made you feel so strange and Ill-at-ease inside yourself Did you ever get invited to one of their parties? You sat and wondered if you would go or not For hours you imagined the scenarios that might transpire They would laugh at you If you'd know what to do If you would had the right things on If they' d notice you came from a different planet Did you get all brave in your thoughts? Like you were going to go in there and deal with it And have a great time Did you think that you might be the life of the party? That all these people were going to talk to you To find out that you were wrong That you had a lot of friends and you weren't so strange after all Did you end up going? Did they mess with you? Did they single you out? Did you find out you were invited because they thought you were so weird Yeah, I think I know you You spent alot of time full of hate A hate as pure as sunshine A hate that saw for miles A hate that kept you up at night A hate that filled your every waking moment A hate that carried you for a long time Yes, I think I know you You couldn't figure out what they saw in the way they lived Home was not home Your room was home A corner was home The place they weren't That was home I know you You're sensitive and you hide cuz you fear getting stepped on one more time It seems that when you show a part of yourself That is the least bit vulnerable someone takes advantage of you One of them steps on you They mistake kindness for weakness But you know the difference You've been the brunt of their weakness for years And strength is something you know a bit about Because you had to be strong to keep yourself alive You know yourself very well you now And you don't trust people You know them too well You try to find that special person Someone you can be with Someone you can touch Someone you can talk to Someone you wont feel so strange around And you found that they don't really exist You feel closer to people on movie screens Yeah, I think I know you You spend a lot of time day dreaming And people have made comment to that affect Telling you that your self involved and self centered But they don't know do they? About the long night shifts alone About the years of keeping yourself company All the nights you wrapped your arms around yourself so you could imagine someone holding you The hours of indecision, self doubt, The intense depression The blinding hate the rage that made you stagger The devastation of rejection Well, maybe they do know But if they do they sure do a good job of hiding it It astounds you how they can be so smooth How they seem to pa** through life As if life itself was some divine gift And it infuriates you to watch yourself With your apparent sk** in finding every way possible to screw it up For you life is a long trip Terrifying and wonderful Birds sing to you at night The rain and the sun The changing seasons are true friends Solitude is a hard won allie Faithful and patient Yeah I think I know you