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A split personality rewrite of Rod Stewart's classic, Infatuation

Early every morning
It always begins
I can't sleep
I can't work
She won't let me eat
I get drunk
All night and day
Just to get away
From this other who never gives me
A chance to concentrate
Maybe I'm making a big mistake
Trying this last desperate attempt
At a life that's normal
Don't wanna be brought down anymore
She's my own personal killer shark
Skeleton in the closet
A railroad outta control
Stomping all over my heart's sanity
Jekyll and Hyde
The way she makes us behave
Feels like I'm running on an endless, empty gauge

Oh No!
Not again!
She hurts me so bad
I don't understand
Think I need integration
Integration
Integration

Heart beats crazy
Always in my head
She sounds off
Like a big bass drum
Screwing with my equilbrium
It's so hard in the middle of the week
Maybe this next doctor can cure us
Of her psychotic need

Oh No!
Not again!
She hurts me so bad
I don't understand
Think I need integration
Integration
Integration

(whisper-Can't integrate me, baby)

I can feel my frustration soar
When she speaks up in protest
At the newest lover or friend
At my side
She puts more then a little grief
Into this broken heart of mine
Maybe forever I'll be unlucky
Maybe this time will be different
Maybe from her chains
I'll finally be freed
Maybe I can escape her obsessive need

Oh No!
Not again!
She hurts me so bad
I don't understand
Think I need integration
Integration
Integration

(whisper-Can't integrate me, baby
Gonna have to shoot me up)

2012 Ramona Thompson