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