Eating Disorder Recovery Through Music and Conversation - Jenn Friedman - Musician and Eating Disorder Recovery Advocate - Lyrics

"Carrie"

Carrie's on the line again
Carrie's on the line again
You worry 'bout her don't you but you don't complain
Just another city down
Go ahead and order her a limousine

Carrie's on the TV show
She couldn't even tell you so
She couldn't even tell you when the body quit
No kisses on the face again
Colors on the braces I can hardly resist oh no

And you said you wanted to find me again
And you said you wanted to find me again

I turned my back to a bottle of wine
Its been a long time com'n
A long time hit and miss
I turned my hour to a minute in par
Of a fire I started
In time to measure this

I read a letter to a woman in debt
And I hung my head at every other word
They say you're born again but oh my God
I've been a one man running show
Ever since I turned to this too many times

Well go on back inside the road we know
You know we follow to the bone
You know we follow what we cannot name
Sold Casanova to the old man is it over
What we got him up against
Its been a long long endless day

And you said you wanted to find me again
And you said you wanted to find me here

I turned my back to a bottle of wine
Its been a long time com'n
A long time hit and miss
I turned my hour to a minute in par
Of a fire I started
In time to measure this

I read a letter to a woman in debt
And I hung my head at every other word
They say you're born again but oh my God
I've been a one man running show
Ever since I turned to this too many times

And you said you wanted to find me again
And you said you wanted to find I'm fine

Carrie's on the wonder wheel
Always on the wicker scale
Weigh'n down to nothing for a candlestick
Well we could take it all you know
When gravity has lost her hold she's over this

"Alibi"

I see you're thirsty now
Lips dry and cracking walls
Soon to be stone under icicle frozen a winter white

I see you're thirsty Annabelle
Just by the way you sit
With your knees in a hold
And a veil overtoning averted eyes

So long as you reassure the masses
Its never gonna vacate this house
A premise you abide by
And live by
Surely you'll tell them we couldn't have it any other way

And when you tell them it'll outlive their children
They'll turn away
On a premise that you honor your alibi
In their holy holy name

I see you're burning up Annabelle
Is it because of the storm that came too quickly
For anyone to predict today

Run for cover poor poor Annabelle
Its just another day that your pride couldn't change anyway
Couldn't change anyway

So long as you reassure the masses
Its never gonna vacate this house
A premise you abide by
And live by
Surely you'll tell them we couldn't have it any other way

And when you tell them it'll outlive their children
They'll turn away
On a premise that you honor your alibi
In their holy holy name

Come on out of the cushion
Where you invented all your distortions
They were born here
Let'em go here
You've got better things to do with your time

Thirst, she is a temporary state
These lines are bound to break
I said Annabelle
You're chapped and trapped in a hell
That you and only you created
Yes you did this to yourself
Yes you did this to yourself

So long as you reassure the masses
Its never gonna vacate this house
A premise you abide by
And live by
Surely you'll tell them we couldn't have it any other way

And when you tell them it'll outlive their children
They'll turn away
On a premise that you honor your alibi
In their holy holy name

"God Don't Like Ugly"

I asked the maintenance man
He makes his rent monthly
He never depended on social security
Fixes the pipes in both Brooklyn and Queens
Seventy cents he buys rollies and loosies says
"God don't like ugly"

God don't like ugly so here's what the boy's worth
Reciting unconscious serenity prayers to
Anyone willing to listen to men
Doctors maintaining his critical condition
God don't like ugly
God don't like ugly

I read your book
It called my name
And I was petrified
I read your book
And I'm not sick
I'm just on overdrive for this

God don't like ugly boy don't you forget
Don't you forget that this man is in debt
So deep in you see he could never pay full
And may end up falling a painfully cruel so
Save me some pieces
Save me some pieces

I read your book
It called my name
And I was petrified
I read your book
And I'm not sick
I'm just on overdrive for this

God don't like suffering
God don't like hurt
So better he lie under blanket and burn
A pardon for teetering over the edge
A pardon for ugly when God takes the blame and I said

I read your book
It called my name
And I was petrified
I read your book
And I'm not sick
I'm just on overdrive for this

I read your book
It called my name
And I was petrified
I read your book
And I'm not weak
I'm just in deep denial again

"Open Book"

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Smile, you're on display tonight

A beauty queen

With a sad old jersey and your baggy jeans

on the corner of a magazine

Here is a child, she'll walk in hazy lines

She'll wonder some

about the world she doesn't know today

and the shame she'll feel when its falling away

She's singing "I was just an open book

for the wind to take in easy strides

I live in my Converse suicide I

hope to die I hope hope to die I said"

Take all the kindness that you bring

Tuck a daughter in

Take all the love and longing saints could ache for

They're only angels anyway

And all these angels that you call

They're just a novelty

They couldn't burn themselves in a battle of snow

They couldn't breathe inside the undertoe

They're sing'n "I was just an open book

for the wind to take in easy strides

I live in my Converse suicide I

hope to die I hope hope to die I said"

Oh now father can you take the hand where you made me

can you understand that I can take this

on a holy land that never

needed attonement

and oh now father can you the the land where you made me

can you understand that I can break this

with a holy hand that never

prayed so hard for anything

and our laughing our charade

in the cafeteria we made

a song to anull'em and a bond to break

Its a long way to Heaven and we're mak'n the grade

We're singing "I was just an open book

for the wind to take in easy strides

I live in my Converse suicide I

hope to die I hope hope to die I said

I was just an open book for the wind

to take in easy strides I live in

my Converse suicide I

hope to die I hope hope to die I said"