they can't be talking about me
 this isn't real
 how can i stop the nothing?
 i'm just a little girl
 
 three thousand miles between most of your friends
 and you wish they could meet they have so much in common
 and you can't believe that you are in portland
 with your good friend from new york on vacation
 the world it is shrinking, pathways intertwining
 some of it's planning a lot of it's timing
 suddenly face to face with jake and jack
 you ask them to sing you their songs back to back
 jack says "i'm alone but i'm not scared"
 then jake says "i am alone but not afraid"
 
 i wish i could be that brave
 but the second person's always in the way
 i tried to hide you
 where no one could find you
 but you were a baby and i was a little girl
 they caught us and brought us back to their world
 that's when i decided the only place i could hide
 was in the stories and dreams in the seams of my mind
 i was so busy dreaming, running from demons
 i didn't even hear you screaming
 
 yesterday you got an email from prague
 that said me and my friends think your band really rocks
 you can't believe it's all really real
 you don't know what to say, you don't know how to feel
 you think it's a joke just like in the sixth grade
 when nick asked you out then he laffed in your face
 you prepare for the worst when you go out on stage
 you block out the crowd, you dissociate
 the music's your blood and the words are your breath
 you sing and you sing like it's all there is left
 
 rock-a-bye baby, beautiful thing
 don't ever, ever let them clip your wings
 when the best and the worst coexist there's a fist fight
 between what's left and the right of way
 i hope you believe me when i say
 things will get better give it one more day
 
 it's hard to sleep when the lullabys are songs
 you don't want to miss you could listen all night long
 and you can't believe that you are in texas
 and jeff lightning lewis is sitting right next to you
 singing the song about the three quarter moon
 you squint your eyes and look inside you
 and the fractions and fragments all become whole
 the music erases the pain in your soul
 the tears in your brain that your memory saved
 evaporate and skate away