Plaid skirts that hide love Walk in single file Ties that restrict blood to the brain Passing notes in Math class Freedom wear your scars of desire It's a coming of age story Freedom wear your scars of desire Conflicting impulses Freedom wear your scars of desire Cuts [Incomprehensible] with the sky Bend (Bend) The (The) Sky (Sky) I've read this book before Anxious eyes stare out of warped glass Waiting for the 3 o'clock bell Trying hard to forget that cold October day When love challenged freedom to a fist fight Freedom looked victorious But no one was expecting the outcome on that baseball diamond When love reached beneath her plaid jumper Pulled out a switch blade And drove it Directly through the heart of St. Angeles Go Any notion of self-government Was left by love bleeding On the pitcher's mound You're (So you say you're scaring me) Scaring me (And you won't be there to catch me) And bleeding on the pitcher's mound On the, on the