Opheliac

"Opheliac" by Emilie Autumn (2006). 

I'm your Opheliac

I've been so disillusioned. 

I know you'd take me back, 

But still I feigned confusion. 

I couldn't be your friend,
My world was too unstable. 

You might have seen the end

 But you were never able 

To keep me breathing 

As the water rises up again

Before I slip away. 

CHORUS 

You know the games I play 

And the words I say

When I want my own way. 

You know the lies I tell

When you've gone through hell

And I say I can't stay. 

You know hard it can be 

To keep believing in me

When everything and everyone 

Becomes my enemy and 

When there's nothing more you can do

I'm gonna blame it on you.

It's not the way I want to be,

I only hope that in the end you will see

It's the Opheliac in me. 

It's the Opheliac in me. 

I'm your Opheliac, 

My stocking prove my virtues. 

I'm open to attack,

But I don't want to hurt you. 

Whether I swim or sink

That's no concern of yours now.

How could you possibly think

You had the power to know how 

To keep me breathing 

As the water rises up again 

Before I slip away. 

CHORUS 

Studies show...

Intelligent girls are more depressed 

Because they know  

What the world is really like 

Don't think for a beat it makes it better

When you sit her down and tell her 

Everything's gonna be alright.

She knows in society she either is 

A devil or an angel with no in-between.

She speaks in third person

So she can forget that she's me. 

Doubt thou the stars are fire

Doubt thou the sun doth move

Doubt truth to be a liar, 

But never doubt...

Doubt thou the stars are fire

Doubt thou the sun doth move

Doubt truth to be a liar 

But never doubt I love. 

CHORUS x2