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Who do you think you are? Trashing around judgments and opinions That aren't yours to make Who do you think you are? Saying one thing in front of our eyes And another behind our backs Who do you think you are? Running away with your enemies Snatching away all our prior beliefs Who do you think you are? To take my friend from me Only to use her just as you did me Who do you think you are? To have the right to discriminate Against race, *** or gender Who do you think you are? To assume our reasons behind our actions To provide information that you don't know for certain Who do you think you are? Coming into our lives with the sole reason of destroying All the things that we cherish, treasure and love Who do you think you are? To invade my private space by saying you're there for me And when we finally give in to your constant nuisance, you strike Who do you think you are? To fake being strong, to falsify your testimonials To base love on false pretence and to breathe for competition Who do you think you are? To put down another without trying to understand them To assume the worst of people when we're all looking for the same things Who do you think you are? To say you love me when you don't To say you'll protect me when you're never there Who do we think we are? When our lives have been based on societies' prejudice and presumptions And it takes all our courage to simply be...
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
Heartache
Who do you think you are? Trashing around judgments and opinions That aren't yours to make Who do you think you are? Saying one thing in front of our eyes And another behind our backs Who do you think you are? Running away with your enemies Snatching away all our prior beliefs Who do you think you are? To take my friend from me Only to use her just as you did me Who do you think you are? To have the right to discriminate Against race, *** or gender Who do you think you are? To assume our reasons behind our actions To provide information that you don't know for certain Who do you think you are? Coming into our lives with the sole reason of destroying All the things that we cherish, treasure and love Who do you think you are? To invade my private space by saying you're there for me And when we finally give in to your constant nuisance, you strike Who do you think you are? To fake being strong, to falsify your testimonials To base love on false pretence and to breathe for competition Who do you think you are? To put down another without trying to understand them To assume the worst of people when we're all looking for the same things Who do you think you are? To say you love me when you don't To say you'll protect me when you're never there Who do we think we are? When our lives have been based on societies' prejudice and presumptions And it takes all our courage to simply be...
bianca-j-cortez
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 2:10 PM UTC
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