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Take Me Away
Questions of life,
questions of suicide waft through
her confused mind
living with her parents
on a typical city block.
Her parents mean only the best for
their twenty-year-old daughter.
Isn't her mother enough?
Companionship, courtship, romance,
lasting relationships
unfortunately play out in
her dazed thinking.
The discrepancy between
dream and reality hurts.
She's not lonely, not solitary.
She can talk all day.
This bewilderment stops up her motivation.
Her future comes in the form of
car rides with male friends.
Jimmy and Tony arrive like clockwork,
two times a week.
Their animation confuses love and liking.
She gets in the car
and goes for the ride of her life.
Always fun. Always joyful.
Music, soda, and the excitement
of somewhere to go.
She forgets who she is
while climbing the heights
of their hospitality.
So she amazes them with her beauty.
These men have no further plans for Ellen.
Just going off in the car for hours.
Her mother is impressed with
their good behavior.
"Ellen, I love you, dear," her mother says,
one spring morning.
With the feelings that Ellen gets,
she doesn't even mind if
that's all there is.
questions of suicide waft through
her confused mind
living with her parents
on a typical city block.
Her parents mean only the best for
their twenty-year-old daughter.
Isn't her mother enough?
Companionship, courtship, romance,
lasting relationships
unfortunately play out in
her dazed thinking.
The discrepancy between
dream and reality hurts.
She's not lonely, not solitary.
She can talk all day.
This bewilderment stops up her motivation.
Her future comes in the form of
car rides with male friends.
Jimmy and Tony arrive like clockwork,
two times a week.
Their animation confuses love and liking.
She gets in the car
and goes for the ride of her life.
Always fun. Always joyful.
Music, soda, and the excitement
of somewhere to go.
She forgets who she is
while climbing the heights
of their hospitality.
So she amazes them with her beauty.
These men have no further plans for Ellen.
Just going off in the car for hours.
Her mother is impressed with
their good behavior.
"Ellen, I love you, dear," her mother says,
one spring morning.
With the feelings that Ellen gets,
she doesn't even mind if
that's all there is.
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