Alyssa Greene

You know what my mother is like

She's a complete and total control freak

The hair has to be perfect

The As have to be straight

You have to join the debate club

On that there's no debate

You'll have Bible camp each summer

To keep you pure and clean

Endless rules apply when you're Alyssa Greene

Trophies have to be first place

Ribbons have to be blue

There's always some competition

Or hoops for jumping through

Your mom's made sacrifices

So win homecoming queen

Cause it's do or die when you're Alyssa Greene

And you wish there was a world

Where you were simply free to live

And when people criticised you

You had no more shits to give

And in this other lifetime

When you tell yourself be brave you won't cave

That's the one thing I truly crave

But your feelings have to be phony

Your weight has to be tracked

If you don't like shaking pom poms

You'd better learn to act

Just have everything perfected by the time you reach eighteen

Don't ask how or why when you're Alyssa Greene

Improve all of your strong points

And hide things that you lack

Cause mom's convinced if you're perfect

Your father will might come back

You're not yourself

You're not what she wants

You're someone in-between

Your whole life's a lie when you're Alyssa Greene

I believe you have feelings for me

But I can't do this anymore

It hurts to much

Is this-?

Are you breaking up with me?

I guess I am, yeah

Bye

You're not yourself

You're not what she wants

You're someone in-between