=Whatever I Have To=

Tuck in your shirt
Straighten your hair
Pick up your clothes
Don't talk, don't stare
How hard is it to be
Something that I never was?
You are everything I could have been
You are everything I should have been

This is all for the best for you
Mistakes I made you won't
I erase my past with every award you win
Every wise choice you make
Your failures are mine but I punish you dually
I'll reap the rewards and not the pain
Your beliefs are pointless in light of this
You are the future of the world
Don't think, don't feel, achieve, save face

I know you are worthless
Don't you see how she looks up at you
I only hope he doesn't turn out like you
Why are you average? You are mine
Everything you have you owe to me
Is this how you repay all the time spent
Wasted on you to watch you do this
You could do better
I deserve better
Look at him, he's ten times wiser
Look at her, why can't you be like her?
You could, you know, why don't you?

Do you want to know why you fail?
Your friends
Your clothes
Your hobbies
Your beliefs
Your influences
All you hold dear holds you back
Let it go so I can lift you to the stars
Why are you crying?
You cause your own failures
No one is to blame besides yourself
I am not asking you to be perfect
I am demanding you live up to impossible standards

You're talking back again
I don't care if this is America
I don't care if you want freedom
You can't have it until you are like her
Like him
Like perfection incarnate
Beautiful, confident, poised, admirable
I did not come this far to watch you fail
Every failure of yours I hold as mine, too

You don't know the world the way I do
Don't talk back
I've been here longer
I know more
I will do whatever I can and say whatever I have to
I will hate you and make you hate yourself
Because I love you
And you will make me proud