• You don't know her
    but you avoid her all the same
    she's the girl in the shadows,
    she's the girl with your name.
    She's the girl who cuts to bleed
    only you can hear her screams

    She used to pray she would be freed
    She used to pray she would be seen
    now she listens to taunts and jeers
    listens to everything but only hears
    the whispers of her demons.

    They tell her what to do,
    They tell her what to say
    They show her who to kill,
    they show her who to save...

    She has a wall around her heart
    With chains and fences, with doors and guards
    no one knows, no one sees
    the little girl upon her knees
    trying to find ways to end her life
    through drugs or guns, through ropes or knives

    she's in the papers, she's on the news
    but they can't find anyone--anyone who knew--
    how hard her life was to endure
    Because the ones that would, were just like her.