A Relative Understanding

She lives through dreams And nothing’s as it seems And everyone she’s ever known’s An actress She runs on caffeine highs And sugar coated lies Just to fake the days away And everybody’s going Down to the playground Bringing all the babies Oh, what fun Don’t make Me say Your name Hey you She doesn’t walk; she weaves Through cigarettes and gasoline And no one can explain the way She wanders And she would hate it when they’d say ‘You’ll grow up just like me some day’ Cause she didn’t want that She’d rather be anybody else than You can’t take this any other way These family ties have tied us together And I can’t see how we ended up this way Hey you Alone, she waits and sees As people come, and people leave And everyday she wonders who would notice If she were to disappear today Would it really matter anyway? So lost while you’re home-bound How is she supposed to come home now? And everyday her laugh’s a little softer When will it just vanish completely? Did she think that no one really cared? And everyday it gets a little harder Knowing so much’s left unsaid But hey, when has her life ever been fair? You can’t take this any other way These family ties have tied us together And I can’t see how we ended up this way She lived through dreams Where nothing was as it seemed And everyone she’d ever known would say Hey you