I Don't Want Your Pity

I don't want your pity
Keep that look off my name
I was angry all night
Sleep never learned my face
Don't cast me as the wreck
Don't dress me as the lost
I don't want your pity
I paid the dark in full and I don't owe you cost

Sat through the black with my pulse on a blade
Every slight they dropped came back sharpened and late
They love a wounded girl they can quietly rank
I wore the fire instead and I didn't break
You talk like you already measured my range
Like one mood equals the rest of my days
I slip the category before it can close
Watch your certainty trip on the way

I don't want your pity
Keep that look off my name
I was angry all night
Sleep never learned my face
Don't cast me as the wreck
Don't dress me as the lost
I don't want your pity
I paid the dark in full and I don't owe you cost

I don't want your pity
Keep that look off my name
I was angry all night
Sleep never learned my face
Don't cast me as the wreck
Don't dress me as the lost
I don't want your pity
I paid the dark in full and I don't owe you cost

Save the gentle tone for somebody else
I didn't stay up so you could feel helpful
You want a simple wound you can point at and sigh
I kept the anger raw and I let it multiply
Not your case study not your almost-saved
I rewrite the ending every time you wave
If you came with condolences packed in your throat
Turn around I already ate that smoke

I don't want your pity
I don't want your pity
Angry all night still standing in it
I don't want your pity
I don't want your pity

I don't want your pity
Keep that look off my name
I was angry all night
Sleep never learned my face
Don't cast me as the wreck
Don't dress me as the lost
I don't want your pity
I paid the dark in full and I don't owe you cost

Not your tragedy
Not your type
Angry all night
Still not asking twice