Play Pretend

Let’s play pretend
With a little smiling here
A little hugging there
Let’s play pretend again
Sculpting our lips up
Keeping everything blown-up
Let’s play pretend again, again
In with my dollhouse world
Our little perfect world

She picks up the bottle close at hand
Downs it all without a little drop
It shatters against the floor
With glass shards here, the glass shards there
I watch the blood run down, run down
Starting the beginning of my curse

Let’s play pretend
With a little smiling here
A little hugging there
Let’s play pretend again
Sculpting our lips up
Keeping everything blown-up
Let’s play pretend again, again
In with my dollhouse world
Our little perfect world

He walks in far blind in front
Lifting his hand for all to see
Striking my skin as hard as can be
With bruises here, the bruises there
I watch the blood run down, run down
Starting the beginning of my curse

Let’s play pretend
With a little smiling here
A little hugging there
Let’s play pretend again
Sculpting our lips up
Keeping everything blown-up
Let’s play pretend again, again
In with my dollhouse world
Our little perfect world

The cigarette light in the corner
Holding the only life to the room
His ashes fall down to only me
With the burning here, the burning there
I watch the blood run down, run down
Starting the beginning of my curse

The pain is staying now
Why, I can never know
The blade dances over the scars
Nothing to worry
Nothing that bad
My curse is my own
But it is what they started
And I will finish with one slice

Let’s play pretend
With a little smiling here
A little hugging there
Let’s play pretend again
Sculpting our lips up
Keeping everything blown-up
Let’s play pretend again, again
In with my dollhouse world
Our little perfect world