Self Preservation

Self preservation

Need validation

I feel it coming

Around the bend

A fling with a bee sting

Stick my head in the shower

Let it go in my ears

Will it clean my thoughts

Or drip like tears?

It's not that I don't like you

In fact I'm trying not to

I'm pulling all the stops just to

Keep a hold on my

Self preservation

Try not to need the validation

Keeping myself (self preservation)

Keeping myself (need validation)

And it's hard to get over

When there's nothing underneath

There's no foundation

Stick myself in the laundry

'Til I shrink in the tub

My woollen heart

Is at a loss

And it's not that I don't want you

In fact I'm trying not to

I'm pulling all the stops just to

Keep a hold on

Self preservation

Try not to need the validation

Keeping myself (self preservation)

Keeping myself (need validation)

Keeping myself (self preservation)

Lord knows I need help (need validation)

Self preservation

Need validation

Self preservation

Self preservation