Me and Mia

As I was walkin' through a life one morning

The sun was out, the air was warm

But, oh, I was cold

And though I must have looked a half a person

To tell the tale in my own version

It was only then that I felt whole

Do you believe in something beautiful?

Then get up and be it

Fighting for the smallest goal to get a little self-control

I know how hard you try, I see it in your eyes

But call your friends, 'cause we've forgotten

What it's like to eat what's rotten

What's eating you alive might help you to survive

We went on as we were on a mission

Latest in a grand tradition

But, oh, what did we find?

It was ego who was flyin' the banner

And me and Mia, Ann, and Anna

Oh, we'd been unkind

But do you believe in something beautiful?

Then get up and be it

Fightin' for the smallest goal to get a little self-control

I see it in your eyes, I see it in your spine

But call your friends, 'cause we've forgotten

What it's like to eat what's rotten

What's eating you alive might help you to survive and

Even the nights, they could get better

And even the days ain't all that bad

And after a week of fighting

As more and more it seems the right thing

But do you believe in something beautiful?

Then get up and be it

Fighting for the smallest goal to get a little self-control

Won't anybody here just let you disappear?

Not doctors nor your mom and dad

But me and Mia, Ann, and Anna

Know how hard you try, don't you see it in my eyes?

Sick to death of my dependence

Fighting food to find transcendence

Fighting to survive, more dead but more alive

Cigarettes and speed for livin'

Sleepin' pills to feel forgiven

All that you contrive and all that you're deprived

All the bourgeois social angels

Telling you you've got to change

Don't have any idea, they'll never see so clear

But don't forget what it really means to

Hunger strike when you don't really need to

Some are dyin' for a cause, but that don't make it yours

And even the nights, they could get better