When I was fifteen
Sixty-five pounds was all I weighed.
My religion was 500 calories a day.
Me and my friends
We started a web page.
There's a picture you can see
Every bone in my rib cage.
We called it the Fight Club
Welcome to our fast.
Starvation the sensation that will last.
We read the magazines with the teens and learned how.
I wonder if they care where I am now.
I am Iphigenia
The daughter you lost.
For all you earned
I am the cost.
Ruling the world
Has a very high price.
I am Iphigenia
The Sacrifice.
They say if I get better
I can go home soon.
My mother reads me stories
In my hospital room.
About Goddesses and girls who can fly.
I heard her tell my father,
"What'll we do if she dies?!"
We read about the Trojan War last night.
Iphigenia killed by her father so his army would fight.
She died so they could sail off for his war.
Another girl who learned what her country wanted her for.
I am Iphigenia
The daughter you lost.
For all you earned
I am the cost.
Ruling the world
Has a very high price.
I am Iphigenia
The Sacrifice.
She died
So the big boys could win.
Sacrificed for a good Westerly wind.
Someone got rich
Telling me to get thin.
Just looks like a different war
From this bed I'm in.
I am Iphigenia
The daughter you lost.
For all you earned
I am the cost.
Ruling the world
Has a very high price.
I am Iphigenia
The Sacrifice.
I am Iphigenia
The Sacrifice.
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Lyrics submitted by Barbara Murphy.