
I'm sick and tired of hearing grown-ups speak for teenagers,
Singing the `Anthem of the Teens` we never wrote,
Bottled up voices, we have been silenced
I'm sick of hearing slander of an age group lead astray,
People wonder why our generation is so dysfunctional,
You forget that we were raised being told there was no such thing as perfection or 10/10,
That beauty was found on TV screens, in flawless skin and six-packs,
That love never lasts and people will only want us if we can fit ourselves into beauty like shoes that are too small.
Try going outside when the world is full of cat calls, wolf whistles from people twice our age,
When we are told to fit ourselves into categories long outdated:
`Male` or `Female`
`Straight` or `Gay`
Transgender, Asexual, these were words we were never taught,
And if you never get the all-clear you cannot know what is right,
or accepted,
It is sad that I know more people who self harm, than people who know what they want to be when they are older,
Reality has sucked the ambition out of us, we are confined to dead end jobs,
These days, we have `realistic dreams` and `unrealistic dreams`
Because dreams are so well known for being realistic!
We have kept our dreams held close and filed away because we know they are so easy to break,
And everyone we have ever shown has always said `Impossible` and tried to give us a replacement,
It is sad If you ask me to name you a drug addict,
I can point at a random student in my school corridor and have a 1 in 10 chance of getting it right,
We are all afraid of different things,
but reality is the one thing that scares all of us,
And when you are so high you're seeing purple dragons,
part of you wants to hit the ground hard so that they are the last thing you see,
We look for love in one another,
Search for moments of perfection in a catastrophe,
Love in a wasteland of nuclear fallout,
Bearing our skin and innocence in the hopes someone out there finds us beautiful
Our parents lied about Santa and the tooth fairy, so they cannot be the judge if we are attractive,
right?
My science teacher taught me,
That as we get older, the lies start of peel away like the skins of an onion,
And I wish she was still talking about the curriculum,
When you get older you start to see the cracks in your own skin,
As the system starts to pump conformity into your blood,
You wonder how our age group came to this!
The alcohol, crack cocaine, the under-age sex,
We are all just trying to kill ourselves before this gets worse,
We could not tell you how long ago we stopped believing in `it gets better`,
And If you don't believe me,
The next time you see a teenager on the way too, from or in school,
Look at their eyes,
Look at the moment they see right through your shallow lies,
Look at how they understand the broken, the hollow, the tired beggars of people once whole,
I remember scanning my maths class the day we got told we were getting put into another exam we didn't need,
Our futures were in the hands of men too used to working with machines than with children,
Unlike the last time, we didn't protest,
We sat back in our chairs, ran hands through our hair, some picked the scabs on their wrists,
Our eyes were dry and tired,
My teacher looked at us, I can see her tears even now, and all she could say was “I'm sorry”
Later I heard her yelling at senior management,
There is nothing worse than watching someone die,
I know that,
We were all happy kids once,
With bright eyes and a great sense of humour,
That's who she knew before this madness,
Now look at us,
Looking for hope in the smallest places,
Diving into danger, hoping it will keep our souls alive just a little longer,
Don't you dare ever tell me the system is not broken.
I have seen too many dead souls in the school corridors to ever believe that ever again.
We are not singing no anthem of yours
There is no patriotism in broken hearts,
Or suicide notes,
Or long sleeves covering scars from the nights that never seemed to end,
Now we are all grown up, our demons are no longer confined to nightmares,
They perch on our shoulders like mockingbirds,
And sing our flaws outwards,
A broken system creates broken people,
And I fear the day,
You see what you have created.  
- Curls 101

(I was so nervous when recording this! Please let me know if you could relate to this- that is what I was aiming for)

Spoken Word Poetry: Teenagers

Do I Miss You?

Youth By Troye Sivan  Daniel Seavey Cover

Depression   Spoken Words Poetry

(A Very Depressing Version Of) The One That Got Away - Katy Perry

(ALL CREDITS TO LAUREN CIMORELLI)

LYRICS:

Maybe it's just my trust issues
Maybe it's the thought of being with you
Maybe it's just you 
Maybe you should already be gone
Maybe I should just let you move on
But I don't want you to 

So I push you away then I pull you back
Have another panic attack
I tell you I'm crazy but you say that you can handle that
and I'll start crying when you say that we shouldn't be friends 
and I'll sit in your truck wishing this would never end
But we both know that soon I'll be running again
I'm running x8
I'm running again

This has been messing with my sleeping patters
I've been throwing up in the bathroom
Get home and I'm alone I can't process what's happening
Every time I think I'm over it, these feelings come back even stronger
Think I might explode if I hold them in any longer
Coming to my window cause I left my charger in your car
Driving to the middle of nowhere nobody knows where we are
But you'd never pressure me and try to take it too far
Don't know why this is so hard
You say that I'm such a good person but I'm definitely worse than you Cause the things you do and what you say I swear your perfect
Gotta go cause it's my curfew
I don't wanna hurt you
The more that time goes by the more I realize that I don't deserve you

So I push you away then I pull you back
Have another panic attack
I tell you I'm crazy but you say that you can handle that
and I'll start crying when you say that we shouldn't be friends 
and I'll sit in your truck wishing this would never end
But we both know that soon I'll be running again
I'm running x8
I'm running again

I’ll shut you out then let you in
And I’ll go and talk to all your friends
Say I’m done then do it all over again
And I’ll tell you things I’ve never said
And I’ll keep on messing with your head
And I’m killing you
But somehow I’m the one that ends up dead 

So I push you away and I pull you back
Break your heart right in half
You want me to be your baby
But I don’t think that I can handle that
And I know I’m lying when I say that we’re only just friends
But I’m a time bomb there’s only one way this could end
Don’t get too close
Cause soon I’ll be running again 

I'm running x8
I'm running again

I'm running x8
I'm running again

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Lauren Cimorelli - Running (Official Audio + Lyrics)

hey loves:) recently i had to let go of a few toxic people and i wrote this song to show that a new and better version of me is coming...and she is Shameless. i hope you like it😗
https://www.instagram.com/sophiemarie.b

stream: https://sophiemarieb.ffm.to/shameless

lyrics
Where’d you go
Where’d you go
Look into my eyes and find im hell grown
Made of stone, in the back of your mind
Im so tip-toe, chill your bones
Think you’ll come to find that you’ve been overthrown, overthrown

And i’ve got nothing left to say to you, say to you
You took my kindness and you tried to use, tried to use
Manipulate my words
Now you’re under my curse
Get ready for the worst

Seems that over night maybe im changing, now i’m misbehaving, 
Too many voices in my head that i am facing
If you come too close im gonna make you wanna stay
Its dangerous, im shameless

Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous

Come and see, come and see, 
The beauty of the storm that I have brought with me, brought with me
Open up your doors it feels like no degrees
I believe, the pain has just begun
This is my prophecy, prophecy

And i’ve got nothing left to say to you, say to you
You took my kindness and you tried to use, tried to use
Manipulate my words
Now you’re under my curse
Get ready for the worst

Seems that over night maybe im changing, now im misbehaving, 
Too many voices in my head that i am facing
If you come too close im gonna make you want to stay
It’s dangerous, im shameless

I might be, I might be, I might be
Your worst nightmare
Then tell me this don’t look like a dream
Im shameless

Shameless

Radioactive

Sophie Pecora

You're not a memory
Cause you're still with me every day
That's what you said to me
Before you left you said that's not the last you'll see of me
I wished for that but now I wish you'd get away from me
You're ruining my life I want to be where other people are and I can show my new hair
As I get ready I take a look in the mirror
I see me
And I see me
In another form, you're ready for war
You tell me you wanna come in I say don't wish anymore
You don't belong here I have changed you wouldn't like the new me
But you still choose to hang around when I am trying to sleep
Creep!
You've got something important to say but I ain't let you speak I'm keeping you down all the way
You don't belong here I have changed you wouldn't like the new me
So let me be I've been without you never felt so much peace
Creep!
You're not a memory
Cause I was with my friends and you were right there next to me
Observing everything I said you're not the boss of me
I turn and you're shaking your head
Oh what's so wrong with me
I only wanna fit in
You're ruining my life I want to be where other people are and I can show my new hair
As I get ready I take a look in the mirror
I see me
And I see me
In another form, you're ready for war
You tell me you wanna come in I say don't wish anymore
You don't belong here I have changed you wouldn't like the new me
But you still choose to hang around when I'm trying to sleep
Creep!
You've got something important to say but I ain't let you speak I'm keeping you down all the way
You don't belong here I have changed you wouldn't like the new me
So let me be I've been without you never felt so much peace
Creep!
This is my time to have a new start
Do you know how low I've been
I'm raising the bar
It's been weighing on me though as myself runs far
I don't recognize me no and it gets so hard
I look at my reflection in the mirror and I don't see myself
I see an insecure person tryna be someone else
You're just a voice in my head that is only tryna help
Get me back what I've pushed away
My true self so I see me
And I see me
In another form, you're ready for war
You tell me you wanna come in I say don't wish anymore
You don't belong here I have changed you wouldn't like the new me
But you still choose to hang around when I'm trying to sleep
Creep!
You've got something important to say but I ain't let you speak I'm keeping you down all the way
You don't belong here I have changed you wouldn't like the new me
So let me be I've been without you never felt so much peace
Creep!

Sophie Pecora - Creep

“Overthinking” expressing how it feels when thoughts we don’t want run through our minds.

Radioactive

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