Shes looking in the mirror
Shes fixing her hair
And I touch my head to feel
What isnt there
Shes humming a melody
We learned in grade school
Shes so happy
And I think
This is not cool
cause I know the guy
Shes been talking about
I have met him before
And I think
What is this beautiful beautiful woman
Settling for?
She bends her breath
When she talks to him
I can see her features begin to blur
As she pours herself
Into the mold he made for her
And for everything he does
She has a way to rationalize
She says he dont mean what he do
She tells me he called
To apologize
He says he loves her
He says hes changing
And he can keep her warm
And so she sits there like america
Suffering through slow reform
But shell never get back the time
And the years sneak by
One by one
She is still playing the martyr
I am still praying for revloution
And she still doesnt have what she deserves
But she wakes up smiling every day
She never really expected more
Thats just not the way we are raised
And I say to her,
You know,
Theres plenty of really great men out there
But she doesnt hear me
Shes looking in the mirror
Shes fixing her hair
