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

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
Your 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 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 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 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 not your world
No
It's not 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