garden party

I'll tell them all about you
just so they won’t have to hear about me
I'll tell them all your stories
but never that they’re empty

they’ll ask me how I am
and I tell them your answers
they’ll request I do a trick
and I’ll show off all your talents

we can dance and sing and laugh
surrounded with chats and lies and mingling
is it true – is it really me who is
the one doing all the singing

so I have to hide while you get to play
that is -- until we’re home -- alone
I get so sick of being you
all the forsaken time
2001