The Answer to the Question: Why?

This is for the heart that

Functioned like the laundromat, 

Took in all their dirty laundry

Yet no one gave it a cent.  

This one's for the girl who

Put her heart out to the world,

Who was so willing to lend,

But others treated her as rent. 

For you who understand these words,

This anthem is for you. 

This is for you, 

A broken body and a crown,

And the same things that bring you down

Brought me down too. 

This is for you, 

I'll trade my life for yours right now

My open arms will hold you close

I am for you. 

This one's for the many lost and 

Hurting in the crowd,

Who, when they come to my house,

Play the fool and act out loud.

This is for the girl who's mirror

Never made her thin enough

To satisfy her lust for love,

No boney frame ever covered it up. 

This is for you,

A broken body and a crown,

And the same things that bring you down

Brought me down too. 

This is for you

I'll trade my life for yours right now,

If you'd let me reach you somehow

I'd hold you close,

I am for you. 

This is for the world that never

Understood my love,

Never called upon my name

Was always looking for the rub. 

This is for the girl who turned

And walked the other way,

Who cried her tears and left the path,

For it all won't be in vain.