Don't you mess
 With a little girl's dream
 'Cause she's liable to grow up
 Mean

 Surprise you to find that I'm laughing?
 You thought that you'd find me in tears.
 You thought I'd be crawling
 The walls like a tiny mosquito
 And trembling in fear.

 Well, you may be king for the moment
 But I am a queen understand
 And I've got your pawns and your bishops and
 castles
 All inside the palm of my hand.

 [bad word] ..
 While you were looking the other way
 While you had your eyes closed
 While you were licking your lips
 'Cause I was miserable
 While you were selling your soul
 While you were tearing a hole
 in me
 I was taking control
 Now I have taken control.
 now i have taken control.
 now i have taken control.
 control...

 Don't you mess
 With a little girl's dream
 'Cause she's liable to grow up
 Mean

 This is beginning to feel good
 Watching you squirm in your shoes
 small bead of sweat on your brow
 And a growl in your belly
 Your scared to let through
 You thought you could keep me from loving
 You thought you could feed on my soul
 But while you were busy destroying my life
 What was half in me has [bad word] whole.

 -= [bad word] =-

 So this is how it feels
 to breathe in the summer air
 to feel the sand between my toes
 and love inside my ear.

 All those things you taught me to fear
 I've got them in my garden now and
 you're not [bad word] here

 [bad word] here

 [bad word] a little bit closer...
 Let me look at you
 I gave you the benefit of the doubt, it's [bad word] 
 But keep in mind my darling
 Not every saint is a fool!

 [bad word] 
 (don't
 you mess
 with me)

 This cannot be all there is to life
 because in our confrontation with
 an enormous and cold universe
 there is [bad word] to the idea
 that we can really enforce our will on humanity.
 Power [bad word]