Why do I so badly crave
your pointless approval?
Why can't I just have my own confidence
to do my own things?
You don't know how it stings,
like salt on a fresh wound,
when you say those things to me
You are the reason
that I can't answer phones
or make friends
or even go out in public
Because I am frightened that others will judge me,
and throw words more harmful than an axe,
at me
I am terrified that someone will hurt me
the way that you have
I can't possibly understand
why you think you have the right
to criticize my every move and thought
Why can't I just be accepted?
1986
I don't exactly know where to start. I guess the beginning would be a good place. I'm gonna warn you now though that I tend to go off on a tangent.
I didn't come from the broken childhood most rockstars seem to emerge from. I loved my childhood; while I didn't have my parents growing up, I had two parental figures who loved each other as well as the five children--two of which weren't even theirs--that they raised very much.
My father died in the Vietnam War before I was born and my mother followed because of some sickness or depression or whatever around Christmas time--two months after I was born, which would be October 14, 1964.