Don't Tell Me
from Insteption by The Dick & Jane Project
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about
Olesya moved to the United States from Ukraine at the end of fourth grade. At the time she was fluent in Ukrainian, but only beginning to learn English. Initially she was…“totally lost. I knew little English. I could put together some phrases like ‘Hi, how are you?’…that’s pretty much it. We came in the beginning of the summer, so I had three months to learn English and go straight to fifth grade.” Luckily for Olesya, she was not alone in her quest to conquer a new language. “Thanks to my dad, he helped me out a lot. Everyday I would come home from school and we’d sit down at the table and he’d go through every single word.” Now gaining control of her English, her next project was the intimidating social gauntlet of middle school. “Making friends was kind of hard, everyone was like ‘ there is this new girl and she is really weird. She doesn’t understand the culture and doesn’t do everything like everybody else. So it took me the first year to adapt.” But adapt she did, and when one of those friends she made was going through a breakup, she put herself in her friends shoes and wrote the lyrics to what eventually became the song.
lyrics
Just so you know,
I cry myself to sleep from night to night.
I fear the sunrise
because I don’t want to face the world.
I’m not what you think I am.
I’m about to break.
Now I let the night take me away.
No, don’t tell me that you just don’t care
because you know that it will break me.
Don’t tell me that you feel my pain
when you never shed a tear.
No, you don’t know what’s good for me.
You’re not the thing I need.
You’re never there for me.
Take me away.
Now I’ll let the night take me away.
Sitting in my room
while the night goes on,
thinking I don’t need you.
But I feel so lost without you.
Promise me the sun.
Let it wash my worries away.
No, don’t tell me that you just don’t care
because you know that it will break me.
Don’t tell me that you feel my pain
when you never shed a tear.
No, you don’t know what’s good for me.
You’re not the thing I need.
You’re never there for me.
Take me away.
Now I’ll let the night take me away.
This is the real me.
You think you know who I really am.
Stay up till 2 so I can be cool.
Wake up at 5:30 just to be fake.
(Studio Improv)
No, don’t tell me that you just don’t care
because you know that it will break me.
Don’t tell me that you feel my pain
when you never shed a tear.
No, you don’t know what’s good for me.
You’re not the thing I need.
You’re never there for me.
Take me away.
Now I’ll let the night take me away.
I cry myself to sleep from night to night.
I fear the sunrise
because I don’t want to face the world.
I’m not what you think I am.
I’m about to break.
Now I let the night take me away.
No, don’t tell me that you just don’t care
because you know that it will break me.
Don’t tell me that you feel my pain
when you never shed a tear.
No, you don’t know what’s good for me.
You’re not the thing I need.
You’re never there for me.
Take me away.
Now I’ll let the night take me away.
Sitting in my room
while the night goes on,
thinking I don’t need you.
But I feel so lost without you.
Promise me the sun.
Let it wash my worries away.
No, don’t tell me that you just don’t care
because you know that it will break me.
Don’t tell me that you feel my pain
when you never shed a tear.
No, you don’t know what’s good for me.
You’re not the thing I need.
You’re never there for me.
Take me away.
Now I’ll let the night take me away.
This is the real me.
You think you know who I really am.
Stay up till 2 so I can be cool.
Wake up at 5:30 just to be fake.
(Studio Improv)
No, don’t tell me that you just don’t care
because you know that it will break me.
Don’t tell me that you feel my pain
when you never shed a tear.
No, you don’t know what’s good for me.
You’re not the thing I need.
You’re never there for me.
Take me away.
Now I’ll let the night take me away.
credits
from Insteption,
released August 21, 2012
Lyrics- Olesya, Phoenix Middle School
Music- Members of the DewDroppers
Recorded and mixed by Joseph Anthony Camerlengo
Released on Insteption in August 2012 at The Ohio Statehouse
Radio Premier: October 2012
Lyrics- Olesya, Phoenix Middle School
Music- Members of the DewDroppers
Recorded and mixed by Joseph Anthony Camerlengo
Released on Insteption in August 2012 at The Ohio Statehouse
Radio Premier: October 2012
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