Don't Count This Lyrics

Try to write something poetic

Another song connected

But I've lost my lust for words

Something blunt is all deserved

A first-hand experience

Rewrote myself into Imogene

All these forms of art

Am I even real if I'm not seen

Never took the time to myself

Cover it up with overachieving

Swear I don't care as they're leaving

Maybe if I get more independent

No one else can let me down

Push them under so I don't have to drown

When a child's drowning

It's not the time to teach her how to swim

How to swim

And it's not the time to tell her

Not to climb the tree as she's sitting on a splintering limb

And God knows I'm still a child

But I can't be foolish now

As I drown and the tree breaks beneath me

God knows, but the world won't

Until I am finally burnt out

And they say what a shame she was too weak

I'm so goddamn privileged

How could my eyes be damaged

But it's hard to see when you're blind by the glare of fluorescent lights

The stares of the teenage mind

They take all your glitter and expect you to shine

Five, four, three, skip two, one

When a child's drowning

It's not the time to teach her how to swim

How to swim

And it's not the time to tell her

Not to climb the tree as she's sitting on a splintering limb

And God knows I'm still a child

But I can't be foolish now

As I drown and the tree breaks beneath me

God knows, but the world won't

Until I am finally burnt out

And they say what a shame she was too weak

My birthday

Rules I set up for myself

My birthday

Becomes a trophy on a shelf

My birthday

If I'm not seen then I'm not real

Don't count this

I'm not yet behind the wheel

Don't count this

Five sets of three little word hunts

Don't count this

Because I'm being too upfront

Don't count this

Falling apart is unlike me

Don't count this

I've always hated thirteen