Andrea Gibson - The Madness Vase lyrics

The nutritionist said I should
Eat root vegetables said if I could get down
Thirteen turnips a day
I would be grounded, rooted
Said my head would not keep flying away
To where the darkness lives

The psychic told me my heart
Carries too much weight
Said for twenty dollars she’d tell
Me what to do i handed her the twenty
She said, "Stop worrying, darling
You will find a good man soon"

The first psycho therapist told me to spend
Three hours each day sitting in a dark closet
With my eyes closed and ears plugged
I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinking
About how gay it was to
Be sitting in the closet

The yogi told me to stretch
Everything but the truth
Said to focus on the out
Breath said everyone finds happiness
When they care more about what they give
Than what they get

The pharmacist said, "Lexapro
Lamicatl, Lithium, xanax"

The doctor said an anti-psychotic
Might help me forget what the trauma said

The trauma said, "Don’t write these poems
Nobody wants to hear you cry
About the grief inside your bones"

But my bones said, "Tyler Clementi jumped
From the George Washington Bridge
Into the Hudson River convinced
He was entirely alone"

My bones said, "Write the poems"