THE WORST

(Duane)
When you're a good person, mistakes haunt you/ gotta live with it, but those mistakes aren't you/ just a little beside yourself, weren't you/ no amount of explanation can warrant you/ so you sit n contemplate/ move the peas around the plate/ as if the mashed potatoes wrote a book called how to compensate/ accommodate thoughts that overpopulate your mind/ stare at the clock n say 'it's a complicated time'/ juice is from concentrate/ but it doesn't enable you, you haven't been able to... since you've lost some weight/ or put on some weight depending on how your mechanisms cope/ retail therapy, hand me downs, second hand smoke/ can't help but to think you're the butt of every man's joke/ and feel ostracized/ you do like an ostrich n hide/ is this a blessing in disguise, has God tossed me a sign/ I'm only human, assuming I'm just along for His ride/

(Elin Skei, covering 'The Worst' by Jhene Aiko)
Tell me what you say now
Tell me what you say?
You said that you would come again
You (said) that we would remain friends but
You know that I do not depend on
Nothing or no one
So why would you show up
So uninvited then
Just change my mind like that

Please don't take this personal
But you ain't shit
And you weren't special
Til I made you so
You better act like you know
That I've been through worse than you
I just can't keep running away
(But I don't need you)

I don't need you [x4]
But I want you
I don't mean to [x4]
But I love you

(Duane)
Ugh, It makes me sick to my stomach, the very thing I defended/ the very reason it ended/ all my actions were justified... one got indented/ so now it's paragraphs to show you just how much I'm indebted/ just how much I regret it/ I wish I could mend it/ where's Agent J when you need him to wave the wand and forget it/ all I asked for was credit/ you just wouldn't accept it/ you denied my applications, I looked elsewhere to get it/ so I wanted to end it/ and I just shoulda said it/ its gotten way too exhausting to have my moves apprehended/ handle feelings with care, so pretend and protect it/ doesn't mean I didn't love you, when I said it I meant it/ dismiss you and miss you or guard your heart and just kiss you/ cared enough to tell the truth, cared too much to execute/ hearts hung in the balance, to open mine was a challenge/ you need to believe me I didn't do it out of malice/

(Elin Skei)
In the way
Funny how everything changed
Once you got all that you wanted
Nothing was ever the same

And though
I don't need you [x4]
I still want you
I don't mean to [x4]
But I love you

I don't need you [x4]
But I want you
I don't mean to [x4]
But I love you