You ask me to come to your party on Friday
I want to say yes, but I don’t
I’ve had a bad dream and I keep thinking about it
Afraid that I won’t make it home
Shut myself in my room
Just to keep out of danger
Fall ill when I need an excuse
You ask if I’m OK,
But what do you want me to say?
I’m sorry I missed the big day
And half-jokingly
You look at me
And suggest that we call a priest
To perform a ritual exorcism
And draw out the devil in me
Filled out a form in a waiting room
Left out my name, took the elevator down
It’s a haunted house, look how they stare from the windows
I can see myself up there now
We burn our skin on paper,
Pile up around town
You don’t know you’re asking the devil to stick around
If I’m just another one you can’t figure out,
Who worked up the courage
Just to let herself down
And half-jokingly
You look at me
And suggest that I call a priest
To perform a ritual exorcism
And draw out the devil in me draw out the devil in me