Was archive-binging on A Softer World, and some of these really hit home for ACoNs

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=10 - 'I got a letter from my grandmother, though she's been dead ten years / She didn't say "I miss you" or "I love you" / Just "Remember when I lent you rent money" / and "I need you to pay me back"'

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=32 - "The sleepover is an integral part of a young girl's social life. / My friends are here to talk about boys and laugh. / I'm here because my mother locked me out again."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=420 - "Hello I am back / to be a good father / and provide for / my family. / I just need twenty bucks / to pay the taxi driver."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=616 - "I figured out / how to be happy / but I can't tell you. / You not knowing / is a big part of it."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=640 - "You won't live forever / in their memories. / The way you / treated them will."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=789 - "Your love is like / a red, red rose, / in that my grandmother / cultivates it / to win contests / against her friends."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=792 - "You are never so low / that you deserve / to be lower."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=880 - "I feel like a lion / whose keeper left / the cage door open, / Scared to be free."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=923 - "I feel like someone / has left my cage open / / and I hate myself / for not running."

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=1071 - 'I'm sorry you / feel that way. / Well, to be honest / I'm sorry you're / sensate at all. / alt = "There. I apologised."'