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Be Nice

So, Freak was written at a time when I was thinking about how people see me. I was wondering what they think of me just from passing me in the street. I have green hair and tattoos and there are a lot of people who don’t like that.

They probably see me and think I’m some tough goth or biker chick who wouldn’t care that they are judging me but, despite my hard exterior, I’m actually quite soft on the inside. I watch rom coms and Disney movies and sometimes I cry when watching a sad movie.

I do have feelings. They may be buried so deep so that I can make it through a day without screaming or yelling at someone or crying, but they’re there.

Just something to think about when you pass someone who looks tough in the street. Every person has a story worth knowing.

Love
Roxanne

Dawn

Looking at you now I don’t know who you are
I never ever thought you would go this far
You could kiss every guy I have ever met
Cause if he’s not a frog I haven’t met him yet
I pick myself up and no ones there to catch me
And I will survive without you just watch me
You could take the spotlight from right under my feet
But my time will come so why don’t you have a seat

I’m always coming second best to first born
Left wandering the halls in the hours before dawn
I tried to keep up but you left me behind
You said you could change but did you even try

After all this time can you feel your crown slipping
I’ve finally seen all those lies you’ve been spinning
You took away my voice and made me feel small
But to everyone else you’re the belle of the ball
Who would want resting bitch face when they can have you
You’re easier to talk to and easier to screw
Everything’s broken now and you can’t fix it
But you were the one who did nothing but risk it

I’m always coming second best to first born
Left wandering the halls in the hours before dawn
I tried to keep up but you left me behind
You said you could change but did you even try

I can tell that you don’t know what you’ve done to me
So some day some how I’ll just have to make you see
I can see that you don’t know how deep you’ve cut me
Some day somehow I’ll just have to make you see

I’m always coming second best to first born
Left wandering the halls in the hours before dawn
I tried to keep up but you left me behind
You said you could change but did you even try

Love
Roxanne

Freak

The girl you see walking down the street
She walks in rhythm to a different beat
Her heads held high, she is self assured
So don’t waste a smile, you’ll be ignored
Her hearts so cold she doesn’t even care
She won’t spare your feelings when your soul is bare
With eyes that sparkle and pull you in deep
If looks could kill she’d be the death of me

She’s a green haired, green eyed, tattooed freak
Wears dresses so short giving everyone a peak
Got eyes that follow her everywhere she goes
But who is this girl in the tight black clothes

The girl you see walking all alone
She’d rather be listening to her headphones
She might force a smile to pretend that she’s nice
But you should know she’s both fire and ice
The glare that she’s wearing its ‘cos she hates us
She won’t let you in a ten foot radius
With the sun on her skin and her head in the sky
She thinks she’s better than you so don’t even try

She’s a green haired, green eyed, tattooed freak
Wears dresses so short giving everyone a peak
Got eyes that follow her everywhere she goes
But who is this girl in the tight black clothes

What does her boyfriend think of her outlandish ways
When she changes her look with the latest craze
She wants us to judge her on what we can see
God forbid they try to get to know me

She’s a green haired, green eyed, tattooed freak
Wears dresses so short giving everyone a peak
Got eyes that follow her everywhere she goes
But who is this girl in the tight black clothes

Love
Roxanne

The Difference Between Life And Death

Please Don’t is about bullying, physical and cyber bullying, and how sometimes that’s all a person needs to push them over the edge, to commit suicide.

You never know what’s going on inside someone’s mind or in their life. One comment from could you could be the difference between life and death, so you should always make yours a positive one.

I wrote this after some comments I saw on Twitter. There was a bit of an internet war between two different groups of fans and one fandom created a hashtag that said the other fandom should cut deeper next time. There’s never a reason to wish someone would kill themselves.

Bullying and suicide rates have gone up since the invention of social media because it’s harder to protect children against it, but also once a comment is made on social media, it doesn’t just blow away in the wind. It sits there, further emphasising it in the victims mind.

Not to diminish the effect of in person bullying, but that’s not usually happening in the home. A child might go to school and get bullied but, before social media, that’s where it ended. They got a break. But now, it doesn’t have doesn’t there.

Even if it’s a joke, if you don’t mean it, your words affect others. Please think about this next time you go to say something. Or if your on the receiving end of the bullying and you think they only way to stop it is if you kill yourself, please don’t.

Love
Roxanne