Broken Doll

from Spiteful Travels by Ripuarian

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Broken doll
What happened to your legs?
He kicked them out beneath you
Made you fall among the dregs

Broken doll
What happened to your feet?
The coarseness of the earth
Did not hesitate to beat

Broken doll
What happened to your arms?
They're scratched and torn all up and down
They give cause for alarm

Broken doll
What happened to your chest?
It's outlined by your ribcage
And causing me unrest

Broken doll
What happened to your neck?
He grabbed it while he took you
And forced his below decks?

Broken doll
What happened to your face?
Swollen with the sadness
That spat upon your grace

Broken doll
What happened to your mind?
You've learned the world can strike against
the beautiful and blind

Broken doll
What happened to your heart?
You've never found someone to love
and don't know where to start

And the tragedy continues
When you put your gaze on me
And I see the hardened look
that stains your porcelain beauty

With stubborn disapproval
And fury at the gall
You tell me you don't need me
'Cuz you ain't no broken doll

And I suppose I've done you wrong
By thinking you so weak
But when I watch you trip and fall
My heart begins to creak

'Cuz I know some bad men did this to you
Oh, what I'd do to them
But now you want to go it alone

'Cuz you ain't no broken doll
'Cuz you ain't no broken doll, at all, at all
'Cuz you ain't no broken doll
'Cuz you ain't no broken doll, at all, at all

And your heart rejects what mine can give
And maybe that's okay.
Because I get you ain't no broken doll
You must go make your own way.

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from Spiteful Travels, released September 22, 2013

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