you can’t be everywhere at once

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this is a long one, but its completely true. there are more details, i just dont know how to put them all into lyrics. the verses are sung over Dm, Bb, C, Dm. and the chorus is sung over Dm, Bb, F, C. at about 110 bpm i think.  each chord gets two measures. each line gets two chords. kind of a folky song. 

 

my grandmother married a terrible man

who abused and scarred my mom and my aunts

at 14 my mother found a cure for her pain

tylenol three would make it all go away

 

she was always looking for the next best thing

the only problem is nothing is free

she told us kids to go out and play

while she cooked all day but there was nothing to eat

 

there’s emotional monsters under my skin

i don’t show them out loud, no one knows that they live

how can i keep on going like this

i don’t know, i don’t know

 

my father caught wind of it and helped break her free of it

but they were so unhappy then, broken hearts in discontent

they’d get so drunk, a case of beer each at night

when they think we’re asleep, he passed out or picked a fight

 

yelling and screaming, we heard it all

turn the music up way too loud, breaking shit against the wall

and in the morning we tiptoed through the glass

no one said anything, just get up, go to class

 

there’s emotional monsters under my skin

i don’t show them out loud, no one knows that they live

how can i keep on going like this

i don’t know, i don’t know

 

years later he found out she was using again

so this time he packed up and left

she had found a doctor who had diagnosed her pain

giving her prescriptions only a yes doctor can

 

copious amounts of methadone

more and more until the pain is gone

as long as he gets a check each month

each of them can have their fun

 

she crashed into a parked car

thats when her world fell apart

detox is a nightmares dream

she swore right then she’d never do it again

 

everyone she knew that had loved her

tried to get her into a rehab center

but she couldn’t afford to go and the state wouldn’t help

because she had no prior record

 

there’s emotional monsters under my skin

i don’t show them out loud, no one knows that they live

how can i keep on going like this

i don’t know, i don’t know

 

not too long after that she found some people

they had something that they said would cure her pain

so she tried it out and she knew it at once

she had found her new escape from the past

 

she was on and off it for a while

the detox was too much so she would get high

she found a new husband fresh out of jail

they began using then he missed his parole

 

there’s emotional monsters under my skin

i don’t show them out loud, no one knows that they live

how can i keep on going like this

i don’t know, i don’t know

 

the news came on of a home burglary

her and her man flashed across the screen

they broke in, the cops arrived, they fled

straight towards a police and shots were fired

 

they couldn’t say if anyone was hit

but to be on the look out for them

she called all her family one at a time

trying to find a place to run to and hide

 

there’s emotional monsters under my skin

i don’t show them out loud, no one knows that they live

how can i keep on going like this

i don’t know, i don’t know

 

the police finally caught up with them

and luckily no one was hit

though they both were high on heroin

they let her go but they kept him

 

her story goes on in the same kind of vein

but while we were looking at her the story changed

you see the other day my uncle called

he had something to say about my dad

 

a phone call at night, and my uncle says

are you sitting down, around someone you love

cause ive got some bad news for you, hold on tight

i got a call from his girlfriend, he OD’d and died

 

she left in the morning and came back that night

when she left it seemed everything was alright

but she returned to find his body was cold

with a needle hanging out of his arm

 

there’s emotional monsters under my skin

i don’t show them out loud, no one knows that they live

how can i keep on going like this

i don’t know, i don’t know