Control

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
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 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
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 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
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 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