Janis Ian - Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind lyrics
[Janis Ian - Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind lyrics]
She sit's on a window sill
Looking down, it's quite a thrill
Imagery, imagining what is it like to be dead
She walks out upon the ledge
Searching for the living end she wonders
Wondering just what has changed in her head
Looking outward through my pain
Looking through my window pane
See her face turn into rain
She prepares her face at last
Taking off the piece of glass
Wrapped 'round her eyes she doesn't cry
She's very young and very bright to die
Then so quickly she stands up
Takes her shoes off in a lump
She lays them down, lately she has drowned
Checks to see her room is neat
Making sure her clothes are clean
Dying, death in dirty clothing puts you down
Looking outward through my pain
Looking through my window pane
See her face turn into rain
Then so quickly she stand up
Crouches low, prepares to jump
Quite properly
Pretends she's in gym shooting a basketball
Floating downward through the air
Remembering the state of her hair
She falls, and nobody hears it at all
Looking outward through my pain
Looking through my window pane
See her face turn into rain
Yes, as I look outward through the rain
It has washed her mind away
I went ahead and made my bed
Nothing really need by said but she is dead
You can have it 'Cause I don't want it
If you want it you can have it
I can't take it, I'm falling, I'm calling
Please, please, please, help me
Please, help me
Looking down, it's quite a thrill
Imagery, imagining what is it like to be dead
She walks out upon the ledge
Searching for the living end she wonders
Wondering just what has changed in her head
Looking outward through my pain
Looking through my window pane
See her face turn into rain
She prepares her face at last
Taking off the piece of glass
Wrapped 'round her eyes she doesn't cry
She's very young and very bright to die
Then so quickly she stands up
Takes her shoes off in a lump
She lays them down, lately she has drowned
Checks to see her room is neat
Making sure her clothes are clean
Dying, death in dirty clothing puts you down
Looking outward through my pain
Looking through my window pane
See her face turn into rain
Then so quickly she stand up
Crouches low, prepares to jump
Quite properly
Pretends she's in gym shooting a basketball
Floating downward through the air
Remembering the state of her hair
She falls, and nobody hears it at all
Looking outward through my pain
Looking through my window pane
See her face turn into rain
Yes, as I look outward through the rain
It has washed her mind away
I went ahead and made my bed
Nothing really need by said but she is dead
You can have it 'Cause I don't want it
If you want it you can have it
I can't take it, I'm falling, I'm calling
Please, please, please, help me
Please, help me