Little Lolita | Sofie Zamchick
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LYRICS:
We never had a family meeting
Kept the door locked, stayed in my room
Flirted with strangers late in the evening
Little Lolita, but nobody knew
Joe was a poet
Cryptic haikus
I was his pretty
Internet muse
Told him I smell like
Vanilla perfume
Baby just wait
I’ll be with you soon
I show up for strangers
Enter the chat
But no one in real life
Knows where I’m at
If I lose connection
You’re all that I have
But would you really wanna know
Where I go when I’m bad?
Joe, he was older, he was alone
He’d start to bark and I’d throw him a bone
Showed him my lips, nothing above
Hoped that my hips could earn me his love
Joe wrote me messages, sometimes in code
NSFW inside jokes
I played along, but he wanted more
So I give him the things that he’s asking for
I show up for strangers
Enter the chat
But no one in real life
Knows where I’m at
If I lose connection
You’re all that I have
But would you really wanna know
Where I go when I’m bad?
Mom found his messages, shielded my eyes
Shit, that was private, I wanted to die
We went out for Japanese, sat on the floor
Conveyor belt fish like a revolving door
Splintered from chopsticks, I blabbed out my sins
And showed her the emails from Joe26
Nobody knows me outside of this chat
Do you even know me VampireCat?
Want somoene to know me
And want me real bad
Do you even know me VampireCat?
Nobody knows me
Not mom not dad
My friends wouldn’t know
What to do with all that
Now you wanna know me
You’re all that I have
But would you really wanna know
Where I go when I’m bad?
I’m bad
I’m bad
I’m bad
Coulda sent me to wilderness
Just like my friend
Grounded me for weeks
For playing pretend
‘Stead she forgave me
Despite all I did
I felt like a grown up
But I was a kid
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