Mr. Piñata

My friend Pinata
has been a hard day?
I can see the marks on your face
I am not distracted by your smile

I know you like to keep them happy
but it's not fair how much they're asking
Even I am frightened
for your health sometimes

They steal your candy and confetti
ripping fistfuls from your belly
You would not presume to make them stop

So underneath the muddy sky
they leave you swinging way up high
Your rope is wearing thin
against the old treetop

Chorus:
Please, sir
Mr. Pinata
Can I take you
Down from there?

Can I kiss your
beautiful bruises,
smooth back
your tattered hair
and take you down from there?

My friend Pinata
you don't look so good
I'd try fix it if I could
but you have got to stick up
for yourself sometimes

You're such a pretty specimen
I'd like to keep you in my den
where I wont let them tamper
with your heart and mind

Chorus

Bridge:
It's no longer just a matter of opinion, mister
It's just too much for anyone to take
I would rather see you be a brave resister
than victim to the bitch that we call fate

Library Girl

Lyrics by Reina Del Cid

Shelving books on the night shift

It takes some time, but I guess I like it

Dewey's decimals keep me company

Out the window, you are dancing

With those girls who can't stop laughing

Lip-gloss, too hot, fake-baked drama queens

You were drinking a margarita

I was reading My Antonia

I got to thinking that

I don't fit inside that world

And I'm not like those other girls

Oh no, I'm not, I think a lot

But please don't be afraid

Just 'cause I navigate the media

And use encyclopedias

It doesn't mean that I don't need

A boy just like you to talk to

Set my cup back on its saucer

At the coffee shop, reading Chaucer

With my iPod on my favorite track

The girls you're with get turtle lattes

Decaf, skim-based, extra frothy

But you and I both drink our coffee black

You were talking about ACDC

And I was playing my Puccini

I got to thinking that

Repeat Chorus

You can buy me a margarita

And I will lend you My Antonia

You can take me to ACDC

And I'll play you my Puccini

It doesn't matter that

I don't fit inside that world

I'm not like those other girls

Oh no, I'm not, I think a lot

But you are not afraid.

That I navigate the media

And use encyclopedias

It doesn't mean that I don't need

A boy just like you to talk to

Edge of The Universe

Lyrics by Reina Del Cid

You have gone to the edge of the universe

and I swear, I will follow even if it hurts

I have tried and so I know

there is nothing worse

than waiting for you to come home

I wake up to the roar

of my racing thoughts

Drive to work, sip my coffee

in the parking lot

Then it's up, up, and away

like an astronaut

set out to bring you back home

I float over Mars and its blood red dunes

Then I'm flung round the sun

toward the distant moons

I will face the blackest hole

if it leads to you

'cause I need to bring you back home

I've tried to sit at your hospital bed

by the body that's missing its soul,

Oh, but how can I stay

when you're light-years away

and you can't find a way to get home?

At my desk there's a body

and it works all day

Its brain crunches numbers automatically

But I am gone, I'm at the heart

of the Milky Way

'cause I'm gonna bring you back home

I will burn through the miles

to find you, love

I won't linger in the beauty of a nebula

I'll push on

toward the lights of Andromeda

and one day I will bring you back home

I've come to dread that old hospital bed

where your body still waits for its soul

Please, can we be the first

in the vast universe

to go right to the edge and back home?

There's nothing as cruel as old gravity.

How many times Ive asked him

to have mercy on me

that I might meet my baby

beyond the stars?

But you have gone

to the edge of the universe

And now I see I can't follow

even though it hurts

I'll give up, I'll stay here,

though there's nothing worse

Than waiting for you to come home

But I will be waiting

for you to come home

I'll go on waiting for you to come home