Original Broadway Cast of Violet, Sutton Foster, Emerson Steele, Alexander Gemignani - Don't try to quote to me… lyrics

Don't try to quote to me
From the Book of Suffering

You don't know anything about it!

I know it's every page by heart!

I'd like to see you try this face on
Before you dare speak to me of suffering

What is it you want to hear?

You know what I want to hear!

That it was all my fault? Is
That what you want me
To say? Alright then it was
All my fault i'm sorry
And there's an end to it

There is no end to it not for me

Just tell me what you want
Damn you i will do it I will
Say it what does it take?

The last twelve years of my life? Can you
Get those back for me? Can you take
Back all the frightened looks
From little girls

The jeers their brothers flung at me
The words of Christian sympathy
Their parents spat
In my face like boiling oil?

You think the accident didn't leave
It's mark on me?

Not out for everyone to see
And be sickened by!

What else could I have
Done? The accident happened
I couldn't undo that i got you to
The doctor as fast as I could

Yeah, a doctor who'd been
Out drinking and who
Sewed me up like a pair of old
Shoes and then you waited five years too
Long to try and make it right

But, you know why

You know what I think? You did it on purpose
You were afraid I'd leave if I were pretty
So you took care of that
You made damn sure no
One else would come within a mile of me