A Dagger Through the Heart of St. Angeles

Plaid skirts that hide love

Walk in single file

Ties that restrict blood... to the brain

Passing notes in math class

Freedom wear your scars of desire

It's a coming of age story

Freedom wear your scars of desire

Conflicting impulses

Freedom wear your scars of desire

Cuts seem to bend the sky

Bend (bend) the (the) sky (sky)

I've read this book before

Anxious eyes stare out of warped glass

Waiting for the 3 o'clock bell

Trying hard to forget that cold October day

When Love challenged Freedom to a fist fight

Freedom looked victorious;

But no one was expecting the outcome on that baseball diamond...

When Love reached beneath her plaid jumper

Pulled out a switch blade

And drove it...

Directly through the heart of St. Angeles

Go

Any notion of self-government

Was left by Love bleeding

On the pitcher's mound

You're

(So you say you're scaring me)

Scaring me

(And you won't be there to catch me.)

And bleeding on the pitcher's mound

On the, on the...