A* I was never sorry that I looked you in the eyes
I never took your money, or engulfed you in petty lies
I took you for a father, my expectations stayed as so
Until you took my sanity and left me with no place to go

I tried to be the daughter that you wanted me to be
Everything was slaughtered when I finally thought for me
Its kind of funny, the way I used to cling to your arm
Now among the disorder, we’ve set off every damn alarm

C* and why can’t I have that?
Why can’t you be my dad?
I want for you to see
I’m still the same old me, the same old me

I was never sorry that I read between the lines
I left your misery, just to catch up with mine
Never smoked a cigarette, but you smoked a pack a day
You take me for an idiot, but never see me anyway

I tried to be the daughter that we all see on TV
Confining my mother the same way you did me
Never liked my best friends, they influenced me in terrible
ways
Never liked my mother’s friends, you accused them of the
same

C The same old me, the same old me, the same old… me
2002
And I don’t need you
I’ve got my things to do
I’m happy where I am
But you were never there… never there… never there
C
A
And I… don’t need… you
And I… don’t need…you
I don’t need you
2002