Ten Minute High Lyrics - Singles - Amel Larrieux

She 

She doesn't need it, but she won't try 

Try to release it 

'Cause she thinks she'll die 

Dependant on it, for it she'll lie 

It's only a ten minute high 

Eyes 

That witnessed a father beat on a mother 

Witnessed a system take away her only brother 

No one ever said that they loved her 

She used to close her eyes and make the pain subside 

But now she's got her 

Ten minute high 

Just for a little while 

She's queen of all the skies 

If a hit is bad another one she can buy 

Everybody tells her to stop 

She would try 

But nobody gave her a good reason why 

Time 

Has taken its toll 

She looks to old for 17 

The girl is much too bold 

Her heart is cold when it used to be of gold 

Her Future Has no chance to unfold 

She's used her body to get her way 

Is she ashamed of the games she's played? 

But her best defense is to block out all the pain 

But first she buys her... 

Ten minute high 

Just for a little while she's floating through the sky 

What's she gonna do when she no longer can fly? 

Is she gonna land on her feet or come down to die? 

Or is she just gonna break down and cry 

When she comes down it all becomes too clear 

She knows that someday she should face her fears 

But she's lost touch with reality and over the years 

She's forgotten how it feels to be real 

It's early morning 

Quiet is the street 

She lays in silence 

The cold cement beneath her feet 

She passed away and today's her 18th birthday 

And all she's left me to say is.... 

She just had her last ten minute high 

Did she contemplate that it would take away her life? 

She probably knew, but she had no reason to fight 

There is not a breath from her lips 

Not even a sigh 

If only she had known 

Wrong from right 

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye girl 

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye