10 Minute High

She
 She doesn't need it but she won't try
 Try to release it
 Cause she thinks she'll die
 Depending on it for it she'll lie
 It's only a 10 minute high
 Eyes
 That witnessed a father beat on a mother
 Witnessed a system take away her only brother
 No one ever said that they loved her
 She used to shut her eyes and make the pain subside
 But now she's got her
 10 minute high
 Just for a little while
 She's queen of all the skies
 If a hid is bad another one she can buy
 Everybody tells her to stop
 She would try
 But nobody gave her a good reason why
 Time has taken it's toll
 She looks too old for seventeen
 The girl is much too bold
 Her heart is cold
 When it used to be of gold
 Her future has no chance to unfold
 She's used her body to get her ways
 Is she ashamed of the games she's played
 But her best defense is to block out all the pain
 But first she buys her
 10 minute high
 Just for a little while she's floating through the sky
 What's she gonna do when she no longer can fly
 Is she gonna land on her feet or come down to die
 Or is she gonna just break down and cry
 When she comes down it all becomes too clear
 She knows that someday she should face her fears
 But with a touch of reality and over the years
 She's forgotten how it feels to be real
 It's early morning quiet is the street
 She lays in silence the cold cement beneath her feet
 She passed away and today's her eighteenth birthday
 And all she's left me to say is
 She just had her last 10 minute high
 Did she contemplate that it would take away her life
 She probably knew but she had no reason to fight
 There is not a breath on her lips not even a sigh
 If only she had known wrong from right
 If only she had known
 Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, girl
 Goodbye, bye