Sisters Never Listen!
Reading Notes: Bolded lines are recited by Sweetie Belle. Italicized lines are recited by Rarity. Bolded and italicized are said together. (Lines in parentheses) are said simultaneously with the line above them.
Sisters never listen!
Eldest always works and never sets
Aside her time
Aside her obligations
Aside herself
Nothing for me
All for her
Younger never stops bothering me
Always jabbering, never quiet
At least not when I need the quiet
At least not when
I’m
Working
Sisters never listen!
Eldest always has a dress
A row of sequins, bright like spotlights
(Please be quiet, please be quiet, please be quiet)
Fabrics like my nightmares
Darkness drawn amongst them
(Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet)
Blotting out the ears of Elder,
Never listening when I tell her
(Please shut up, please shut up, please shut up)
How my nights are haunted
Please, shut up and listen to me!
Younger claims
No liability
(No, please, no, please, no, please)
She doesn’t know the burdens
That weigh on heart, mind and back
(Stop it, stop it, stop it)
Pulling down your features, every day a new wrinkle
Every wrinkle a reminder that years wear on
(Please shut up, please shut up, please shut up)
And soon, you’re out of style
Please, shut up and listen to me!
Elder says she hates me
Elder calls me another
Burden
Elder only wants to work
Never wants me,
Never wanted me
But me is who she got and will get
Younger says she hates me
Younger calls me prissypants
(Prissy, prissy, prissy)
Well, if these are prissy pants
(I hate you, I hate you, I hate you)
This aging trim
Is simply garish
Hate.
You always hear her
Never feel her
Hate!
Oh how I hate how she never listens
If only she knew how much it hurt
No mark, no talent, only two
To keep me on this hated earth
Hate!
Oh how I hate how she never listens
She is too young to understand
How much I do and so much for free
I do not wish to burden those close
Only burden myself with
Her
Sisters never listen!
If she does, why doesn’t she know me?
If she does, why doesn’t she see?
I sometimes don’t think she’d care if
I died
Sometimes, I wonder if she’d listened
(Alalalalalalalalalalalalala)
Just how much she would learn
(Just how little I would learn)
Sometimes I wonder if
(How nice.)
She’s really my sister
(That’s wonderful, darling.)
Or just the world’s most boring robot
(How droll.)
Sent back in time to kill me
(Perfection.)
Stop the resistance and
(Mm-hmm.)
Keep ponykind from being bored to-
Well, now!
Me, a robot?!
(Uh-huh.)
All that chrome,
Ugh
Disgusting!
(Sure.)
Perhaps it’s you who’s like a drone
(Whatever.)
Get yourself knee-deep into trouble
When I so much as turn around!
Goddess above!
Sisters
Never
Listen
Ever!
Except
Except
Except when she needs to listen
Even when I don’t want to hear her whine
Even when she’s going on and on
Sometimes you just have to listen
Listen for dangers to Younger
(Listen for dangers to Eldest)
Listen in case she’s actually
Looking out for me
Listen in case she just might
Have something resembling a point
Listen in case she really needs
Somepony who will listen to them
For once
She’ll hear me out
For once
I’ll take her word for it
For sisters
Never listen
Except when one’s needed most
When I need comfort
When I need confidence
When I need a helping hoof
When Elder needs a spool of thread
When Younger needs a bandage
When a sister is needed
She’ll always come around
When Elder’s love life,
Stagnant as always
(Well!)
When Younger’s flank,
Blank as ever
(Hey!)
When I need comfort
When I need assurance
When a sister is needed
She’ll start to come around
And when she says
“I hate you,”
There is no power in those words
They are lost to the winds
For hate between sisters is merely a word
And true hate between sisters
An awful nightmare
But love is a force that very few know
And fewer understand
As sisters do
For as long as you love one another
As long as hate is said but never felt
As long as begrudging need remains
Sisters
never
Listen!