With Your Greatest Fears Realized, You Will Not Be Comforted - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

You wore a hand-me-down dress that never fit quite right

Your mother’s frame did not favor you

The summer she passed you were born, and you father lost his job

He could not handle it, or you

You wore the saddest smile that never fit quite right

Your mother’s smile felt that way too

The summer she gave her life for you, and your father blamed you

Was the summer you began to blame yourself too