For Clarissa - an original song

I wrote this about a girl I once knew in the hospital. You'll have to forgive my blatant mistakes throughout the video -- this was the only take that would save. I apologize.

Lyrics:

I watched you pace up and down the halls; your walls
never revealed more than a fake smile.
Your pyjamas and robe were your home and your hands
balled themselves up into little fists.
You weren't angry but cold; you're too old
for your sixteen years and you're beautiful
but you've made yourself into skin and bone.

Clarissa dear, you're just a whisper now.
Somehow you've lost your way.
With all that darkness stuck inside your mind
you couldn't find the finish line.
And you let yourself fade.

I could hear your sobs above the screams that haunted me from down the hall.
Your room was just across from mine. At times
you'd stand in the doorway and show me your heartache:
demons that fought beneath your skin.
You're too thin.

Clarissa dear, you're just a whisper now.
Somehow you've lost your way.
With all that darkness stuck inside your mind
you couldn't find the finish line.
And you let yourself fade.

In your bed you held tight to your bear, the pair
of you tearing at the seams.
He leaked stuffing through expanding holes; you sold your soul for skin tight on bone.
You disappeared and he fell apart
but you held him close to your slowing heart.

Clarissa dear, you're just a whisper now.
Somehow you've lost your way.
With all that darkness stuck inside your mind
you couldn't find the finish line.
Clarissa dear, you're just a whisper now.
Somehow you've lost your way.
With all that darkness stuck inside your mind
you couldn't find the finish line.
And you let yourself fade.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ScarredScaredandSad
• Tiana
• Barbaza-Cousineau
• original
• song
• For
• Clarissa
• eating
• disorder
• hospital
• acoustic
• guitar

[TwistedRainbowSock]

I think this is your best song. The lyrics are so meaningful, and I think you've improved on the guitar as well.

It really was beautiful.

[ScarredScaredandSad]

@TwistedRainbowSock Thank-you darling. (:

[7AngelKat7]

I <3 you for this one, this is amazing and shows how far you've come.

<3 you!

[ScarredScaredandSad]

@7AngelKat7 Oh gosh, thank-you. xx

[huebnersarah7]

myname is clarissa :D