| You should write a song where the concept is… | 
| You’re basically writing like a love letter, or like a piece of advice | 
| To your mother, when she was your age | 
| I don’t know | 
| Maybe I would write you a happy ending | 
| I would rearrange the pieces to your sad beginning | 
| I would put you far away from the decaying roots that bore you | 
| And let you experience all the ways that happiness could bloom before you | 
| Or maybe I’m naïve… | 
| Maybe I’m just a kid who thought that if she could plant a seed | 
| It would somehow grow inside you | 
| Spent so much of my time wishing you were different | 
| But reality is that with life can’t never be provision | 
| But if I could wish for one thing, I’d go back and I’d fix it | 
| I’d tackle all your obstacles and kill 'em with precision | 
| And better the intentions of every single person | 
| Who’d play a part in you learning exactly what your worth is | 
| I’d shower you with purpose, I’d wipe hate off the surface | 
| I’d reshape all your pain and make it fucking worth it | 
| No more feeling worthless, no more fucking searching | 
| No more of that fraud shit, nobody else could hurt you | 
| Yeah, said nobody else could hurt you | 
| And if they ever tried too I’d wipe 'em from the Earth too | 
| Cuz I know that you hurting baby, I know that you tired too | 
| I know that you been running from everything that’s behind you | 
| I know you’ve been burying everything deep inside you | 
| I can see it killing you, wish that I could revive you | 
| But I’m stuck sitting in this time frame | 
| Struggling with my demons and playing these stupid mind game | 
| One day it could get better, maybe it could get better | 
| Maybe we could change shit, no more inclement weather | 
| Know you hated your mom, know it went through your mind | 
| You were just like me, wish that you had more time | 
| To see life from a different angle, wrestle with a different angel | 
| Wouldn’t lose your wings and fall from heaven like a cliffhanger | 
| Everything is different now, nothing is the same | 
| And nowadays I swear it feels like you don’t know my name | 
| But I look at the mirror and I see you every day | 
| I’m you in every way, every hue and every shade | 
| And maybe you should know, it’s the last thing that I wanted | 
| Cuz what I hate about you makes me feel like I’m haunted | 
| And I don’t wanna spend the rest of my time on the run and- | 
| So I’m just gonna confront it, yeah I’m just gonna confront it | 
| And tell you that I love you for everything you made me | 
| And that you need to hear this even if it makes you angry | 
| God lives inside you, you’ve already found him | 
| The Devil lives in memories and you just let him hound you | 
| And I despise your church for every fucking thing they taught you | 
| It’s just a fucking stain that I wish I could wipe off you | 
| That I wish I could wipe off you | 
| And I forgive you for doing everything that it cost you | 
| Everything that it cost you | 
| Fame is such a heavy price, I wish it didn’t cost you | 
| Losing a part of me that would follow you to Hell | 
| Follow you to hatred, or follow you to jail | 
| Followed you to patterns that I could never get out of | 
| Now I realize that I could never make it with that love | 
| Now I realize that shit is the alternative outcome | 
| Never wanted you to save me, I just wish I count some | 
| I just wish that you grew up with someone you could count on | 
| I wish you knew that you could never make it without love | 
| For your goddamn self, and that you never ever find it in anybody else | 
| Cuz I would help you find you | 
| And if I saw it killing you I swear I would revive you | 
| And if that meant the end of me | 
| I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy end in peace | 
| Because, you are such a special thing | 
| You’re not just my mom, but you’re the reason I exist | 
| And the best life that you could’ve had for yourself without making a mistake | 
| Would have meant I woulda had a nicer childhood | 
| And even though my childhood wasn’t perfect and I still love you | 
| I just want you to know that if I could go back and do one thing for you | 
| Or be one person for you | 
| I would make sure, not just for my sake, but so that you could’ve had a nicer | 
| life | 
| And a nicer childhood, that you know | 
| You would not have made the mistakes that put us all in this bad situation | 
| And not have the strength to leave | 
| But just so that you would have been happier and stronger | 
| Even if I didn’t exist, even it meant that I was never born | 
| That’s what I would have wanted for you | 
| Yeah, and if that meant the end of me | 
| I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending | 
| Cuz I know that you hurting baby, I know that you tired too | 
| I know you’ve been running from everything that’s behind you | 
| I know that you’ve been burying everything deep inside you | 
| I can see it killing you, wish that I could revive you | 
| And if that meant the end of me | 
| I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending | 
| And if that meant the end of me | 
| I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending | 
| And if that meant the end of me | 
| I’d do it all for you so you could have your happy ending | 
| I don’t know | 
| Maybe I would write you a happy ending | 
| I would rearrange the pieces to your sad beginning | 
| I would put you far away from the decaying roots that bore you | 
| And let you experience all the ways that happiness could bloom before you | 
| Or maybe I’m naïve… | 
| Maybe I’m just a kid who thought that if she could plant a seed | 
| It would somehow grow inside you | 
| And that I could hide you from the rain | 
| So that it could be easier for happiness to find you | 
| Or maybe I’m still a kid who’s caught in a dream | 
| I’m the heir to the throne of a princess who’s still trying to be queen | 
| Or maybe we’re all just caught in the winds of a massacre | 
| The blackened leaves of dying, black dahlias |