It’s just getting too heavy. Carrying myself is hard enough.

I don’t want to be the filler if the void is solely yours
I don’t want to be your glass of single malt whiskey hidden in the bottom drawer
I don’t want to be a bandage if the wound is not mine
Lend me some fresh air

I don’t want to be adored for what I merely represent to you
And I don’t want to be your babysitter
You’re a very big boy now
I don’t want to be your mother
I didn’t carry you in my womb for nine months
Show me the back door

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and
oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for
And I am not the doctor

I don’t want to be the sweeper of the egg shells that you walk
upon
And I don’t want to be your other half -
I believe that 1 and 1 make 2
I don’t want to be your food or the light from the fridge on
your face at midnight, hey
What are you hungry for?

I don’t want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
I don’t want to be your idol -
See this pedestal is high and I’m afraid of heights
I don’t want to be lived through -
A vicarious occasion
Please - open the window

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and
oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for
And I am not the doctor

I don’t want to live on someday when my motto is ‘last week’
And I don’t want to be responsible for your fractured heart
And it’s wounded beat
I don’t want to be a substitute for the smoke you’ve been inhaling
What do you thank me…
What do you thank me for?

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and
oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for
And I am not the doctor

Seeking some fresh air,
michelle