Am I going mental?
Or is everything just becoming less and less sentimental?
Why is Mom so moody?
Why is Dad frenching Judy?
Why is left suddenly right?
And why is home out of site?
And how come everyone sees, but walk around without a care
Like maybe there's sanity somewhere.

What happened to days in the park
Where you ran with your friends until dark?
What happened to the ice cream man
Selling more sugar and sweets than in Candyland?
Why does the grass look brown?
Why are friends no longer around?
Please, somebody, tell me what's going on!
Light the answer up in neon.

Do you remember when we use to play dolls
When there were no "oddballs"?
What happened to dressing up?
Wearing Mommy's things and wanting to grow up?
Why can't we do those things anymore
Without thinking of some war?

Why is everything so different now?
Why is quiet Quinn now obnoxiously loud?
Why is it when they say "Spirit Suzie"
They always assume she's drinkin' boozie?
Why did everyone have to change
Why did the known, become strange?

Am I going mental?
Or is everything just becoming more and more sentimental?
All of the times I'm holding on to
Wishing that they weren't among the things I out- grew.
But I know that it's all apart of growing up
And trying not to slip- up.

Even when:
Mom's moody.
Dad's frenching Judy.
Turning left is now turning right
Home is somewhere out of site.
And even though sometimes people walk around with out a care
I do know that the answers are somewhere.

- Katie