POE - "Control"

Don't you mess with a little girl's dream
Cuz she's liable to grow up mean...

Surprised you to find that I'm laughing
You thought that you'd find me in tears
You thought I'd be crawling the walls
Like a tiny mosquito and trembling in fear

Well you may be King for the moment
But I am a Queen, understand
And I've got your pawns and your bishops and castles
All inside the palm of my hand

While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
Cuz I was miserable

While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole
In me....

I was taking control!
Now I have taken control!
Now I have taken control!
Now I have taken control...
Control!

This is beginning to feel good
Watching you squirm in your shoes
A small bead of sweat on your brow
And a growl in your belly
You're scared to let through

You thought you could keep me from loving
You thought you could feed on my soul
But while you were busy destroying my life
What was half in me has become whole

While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
Cuz I was miserable

While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole
In me....

I was taking control!
Now I have taken control!
Now I have taken control!
Now I have taken control...
Control!

So this is how it feels
To breathe in the summer air
To feel the sand between my toes
And love inside my ear

All those things you taught me to fear
I've got them in my garden now
And you're not welcome here!
Come here!

Come a little bit closer
Let me look at you
I gave you the benefit
Of the doubt it's true

But keep in mind my darling
Not every saint is a fool

While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
Cuz I was miserable

While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole
In me....

I was taking control!
Now I have taken control!
Now I have taken control!
Control!
Control!
Don't you mess with me!

Poe's father: "This cannot be all that there is to life, because in our confrontation with an enormous and cold universe, there's something comical to the idea that we can really enforce our will on humanity. Power corrupts! It's your world! Do with it what you want! No, that's not the way to do it! Paradox..."

Poe as a child: "You're scaring me! This is not a happy house..."

Poe's father: "...and through it all, lies of course the final conflict of deterioration, entropy, which is of course the deterioration of creative energies..."


**The song is from Poe's album "Haunted," which was a tribute to her father, who was a scientist and teacher in Spain. His death had a great impact on her life. She stumbled upon some old recordings of his lectures, and used them in many of the songs in the album.