Alexandra Lyrics

Just a small child with green eyes

And a complicated love for the spotlight

Only wanting it if you look just right

And never thinking you do

Used to sing out in grade school

Till the other graders made you feel uncool

Wasn't very faithful to the golden rule

It doesn't matter either way now

Count your cost, quit your dreaming

Now that Alexandra's screaming

She saw it from so far off and still

Somehow you're lost and beaten down

Where'd you find that scathing silence

Addiction to a fiction of self-reliance

Saying "you can't make it till then"

Will you ever write a wish-list in ballpoint pen

Say you're wounded when the truth is

That's a bead along a string of excuses

You meet her in the bathroom each time

The villain and the victim on either side

Count your cost, quit your dreaming

Now that Alexandra's screaming

She saw it from so far off and still

Somehow you're lost and beaten down

Alexandra's screaming now

Fractures in the steps peak out

To keep you from your temple

When will it get simple

Tell me it gets simple