[VIOLET]

Look at me

No one will look at me

No one will dare to spend

The time it takes to

Look at me –

To really look at me

What did I do to make

You angry at me

My God

This is so hard

Look at me

Look at me

Can you imagine

What it's like when people

Look at me –

Look at me

Is this the tender mercy

That you're known for

My God

Don't be so hard

Give me the wings

Of an angel

Don't pull back

Don't shudder

Look elsewhere

Lose interest

I'm almost there

This is where the preacher stands

Two kinds of people in this world

All I have are promises

To raise me up and set me free

I'd like a pair of Gene Tierney eyes

And Ava Gardner's eyebrows

And anybody's cheekbones

A different mouth

Beneath a new

And better nose –

And please, the eyes –

But God, give me something!

Something of my own

Something mine

So I won't

Be ashamed

When I find a man

To look at me

Why won't you look at me

It was an accident

Or was it really?

[YOUNG VI, spoken]

Look at me!

[VIOLET]

Goddammit, look at me

[VIOLET & YOUNG VI]

This is your handiwork

The gift you gave me

[FATHER, spoken]

So what? Once I look at you, then what. Here I am, looking at you. Satisfied?[YOUNG VI, spoken]

You act like it's my fault.

[FATHER, spoken]

I'm not the one who up and decides one day the woodshed is the place to play.

[YOUNG VI, spoken]

I'm not the one who doesn't check to see his blade is loose!

[FATHER, spoken]

It wasn't loose, damn you. The shim came out. Nobody checks the shim every time he uses his axe.

[YOUNG VI, spoken]

I'll bet you check it now.[VIOLET]

Don't pull back

Don't shudder

Look elsewhere

Lose interest

Act distant

Embarrassed

You better

Be careful

'Cause I won't

Accept this

Not this time

I'm almost there[VIOLET, spoken]

God, I just want you to apologize.