Closet of Innocence

Why do you hit me?
And why do you put me down?
I just look up to you
and you feel you should just push me around. Why do you hit me;
Excoriate me, ignore my needs?
I want to break the failure chains
but you don’t want to see me succeed.

What was so hard for you?
All we did after all was show up.
And through manipulation of me
in the hopes that it all would blow up.
What was so hard for you?
We all have some problems inside.
Now I can’t just sit here
‘cause when you’re coming I just have to hide.

I’m in this closet of innocence.
Closet of innocence.
On the floor
in the back.
On my knees.
Don’t attack.

All the flags have been raised
and no one noticed the fall.
When the change had been made
nobody wondered at all.
There through all the tumult
proud I am there I stood
in the closet of innocence.
It’d never be what it should.

Why have I carried this?
There are no answers I can parlay.
It’s been a mountain of a chore.
But now it’s at your feet they lay.
For to keep it up, and wallow in
this unsolved misery.
Would be to you just what you want.
And you know that’s not like me.

I’m in this closet of innocence.
Closet of innocence.
On the floor
in the back.
On my knees.
Don’t attack.

All the flags have been raised
and no one noticed the fall.
When the change had been made
nobody wondered at all.
There through all the tumult
proud I am there I stood
in the closet of innocence.
It’d never be what it should.