We're About 9 - Falling Down lyrics

i'm no expert on the subject but i heard the words before scattered in my epicenter where bad memories are stored she says no i'm not falling down i've got two feet in every corner and a hand on every wall and if this one tries to hurt me i'm kicking him in the balls i'm not falling down she's no expert on the subject she doesn't know if she's in love every time she starts to fall she gets buried in the stuff i say listen to yourself it sounds like pain she says i know this but from all my experience i'm pretty sure that's what love is i say love is caused by chemicals and she says PMS is caused by chemicals i wish they made a pad that would soak up all the aftermath of that boy so she could throw it all away cause all the opportunities of her life hide like fingerprints now from her sight and she is dusting the floor for any sign of life that can be found looking up at the hands that would save her screaming no i don't need you i'm not falling down so i compare her to a paint by numbers drawn over the top of Michelangelo's ceiling or Claus Sauldenbeg's soft stuff she compares me to a critic and I say that's just your anger coming out and she says see, there you go again but i like to be there for her and listen to the pain pouring out of her like music with the ugly notes sustained and if i run out of responses it's cause she heard them all before so i practice making silences and all of theses stupid metaphors her words don't make it past me and she needs that opportunity i wish they would make a flag out of all the self she gave away she could launch it in the air one time and tell him everything she has to say cause all the opportunities of her life hide like fingerprints now from her sight and she is dusting the floor for any sign of life that can be found looking up at the hands that would save her screaming no i don't need you i'm not falling down