Don't you mess with a little girl's dream

'Cause she's liable to grow up mean

Surprise you to find that I'm laughing?

You thought that you'd find me in tears

You thought I'd be crawling the walls like a tiny mosquito and trembling in fear

Well, you may be king for the moment

But I am a queen, understand

And I've got your pawns and your bishops and castles all inside the palm of my hand

While you were looking the other way

While you had your eyes closed

While you were licking your lips 'cause I was miserable

While you were selling your soul

While you were tearing a hole in me

(I was taking control)

Now I have taken control (I have control)

Now I have taken control (I have control)

Now I have taken control

Control

This is beginning to feel good

Watching you squirm in your shoes

A small bead of sweat on your brow

And a growl in your belly you're scared to let through

You thought you could keep me from loving

You thought you could feed on my soul

But while you were busy destroying my life

What was half in me has become whole

While you were looking the other way

While you had your eyes closed

While you were licking your lips 'cause I was miserable

While you were selling your soul

While you were tearing a hole in me

(I was taking control)

Now I have taken control (I have control)

Now I have taken control (I have control)

Now I have taken control

Control

So this is how it feels

To breathe in the summer air

To feel the sand between my toes and love inside my ear

All those things that you taught me to fear

I've got them in my garden now and you're not welcome here

Come here

Come a little bit closer

Let me look at you

I gave you the benefit of the doubt, it's true

But keep in mind my darling

Not every saint is a fool

(Don't)

While you were looking the other way (you mess)

While you had your eyes closed (with me)

While you were licking your lips 'cause I was miserable

(Don't)

While you were selling your soul (you mess)

While you were tearing a hole in me

(I was taking control)

Now I have taken control (I was taking control)

Now I have taken control (control)

Control

Control

Don't you mess with me

This cannot be all that there is to life

Because, in our confrontation

With an enormous and cold universe

There is something comical

To the idea that we can really enforce our, our will on humanity

Power corrupts

It's your world, do with it what you want

No, that's not the way to do it

Power

That's not the way to do it

Paradox

No

It's your world

No

It's your world

No

It's your world

No

Control it

Control it

It's scaring me

I live at a five-and-a-half minute hallway

I live at a five-and-a-half minute hallway

At the end of it all lies of course the final phenomenon of deterioration

Entropy

Which is a predictable deterioration when the creative energy ceases