dave matthews band

crush me
me
i've known misery
we met in 1965, in utero
i felt an imperceptable ridge
left in my mother's womb
where my father's fist
found my brother in his sac
and left a shiner

crush me
me
not her
my heart was born in pieces
drawn and quartered
each time my brother
took his rage out on
me

my heart can be bored
and rebound

but i have seen her smile
it's depth
millimeters smaller now

i was confronted by her eyes
tinted by loss and betrayal
it's happened again

crush me

i am not a faerie
i was never an angel
i never dreamed of happy endings
i accepted my slow death

crush me, because to watch her is too painful