Amanda Palmer - Judy Blume lyrics
[Amanda Palmer - Judy Blume lyrics]
People keep asking me why I
Do things like I do in all of this measuring
Influence I forgot you
You and me lying behind the Monhegan Hotel
And you told me things that
Nobody around me would tell
That was the summer when everyone
Touched me at once
It's like one day they ignored me, the next
They were all down my pants
But, you were in bed with me, safe
Before anyone else
You opened beside me and held
Me when I needed help
You and me lying together at night in my room
You've been inside me forever, Judy Blume
I couldn't carry a tune but
I thought I could sing
No one had told me that thoughts
Were a good or bad thing
But, I started noticing grown-ups
Would smile and cringe
You taught me that you could
Say anything you could think
I don't remember my friends
From gymnastics class
But, I remember when Deenie was
At the school dance
Buddy feeling her up in the locker room
Margaret, bored
Counting hats in the synagogue
Davey was stirring the tea
That she wouldn't drink
Tony was watching his
So-called friend shoplifting
All of them lived in my head
Quietly whispering: "You are not so strange"
I don't remember the details of seventh grade
All I remember is lying and being afraid
But, I don't forget Katherine and
Michael going all the way
Steph on the scale in the
Bathroom alone that day
Karen pretending to puke so
Her dad would stay margaret arguing with God
While she masturbated
All of them mixed up in my
Head like a love letter
All of those saying "Amanda you know better
You are not to blame
The world's a frightening place
So go on and think how you want
You will not be alone with your thoughts
Well you will, but you won't in a way
'Cause a girl thought it too in
A book that the library bought"
People will keep asking me why I
Do things like I do
And from now on I'll tell them, Nick Cave
And I'll talk about you
Judy, I can't believe sometimes
That I'm an adult
And the girls like I was think that
I have this shit figured out
You and me lying together at night in my room
You'll be inside them forever, Judy Blume
Do things like I do in all of this measuring
Influence I forgot you
You and me lying behind the Monhegan Hotel
And you told me things that
Nobody around me would tell
That was the summer when everyone
Touched me at once
It's like one day they ignored me, the next
They were all down my pants
But, you were in bed with me, safe
Before anyone else
You opened beside me and held
Me when I needed help
You and me lying together at night in my room
You've been inside me forever, Judy Blume
I couldn't carry a tune but
I thought I could sing
No one had told me that thoughts
Were a good or bad thing
But, I started noticing grown-ups
Would smile and cringe
You taught me that you could
Say anything you could think
I don't remember my friends
From gymnastics class
But, I remember when Deenie was
At the school dance
Buddy feeling her up in the locker room
Margaret, bored
Counting hats in the synagogue
Davey was stirring the tea
That she wouldn't drink
Tony was watching his
So-called friend shoplifting
All of them lived in my head
Quietly whispering: "You are not so strange"
I don't remember the details of seventh grade
All I remember is lying and being afraid
But, I don't forget Katherine and
Michael going all the way
Steph on the scale in the
Bathroom alone that day
Karen pretending to puke so
Her dad would stay margaret arguing with God
While she masturbated
All of them mixed up in my
Head like a love letter
All of those saying "Amanda you know better
You are not to blame
The world's a frightening place
So go on and think how you want
You will not be alone with your thoughts
Well you will, but you won't in a way
'Cause a girl thought it too in
A book that the library bought"
People will keep asking me why I
Do things like I do
And from now on I'll tell them, Nick Cave
And I'll talk about you
Judy, I can't believe sometimes
That I'm an adult
And the girls like I was think that
I have this shit figured out
You and me lying together at night in my room
You'll be inside them forever, Judy Blume