The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight

This here is the place I will be staying.
There isn't a number. You can call the pay phone.
Let it ring a long, long, long, long time.

Starfire sat in her room alone. Normally, she was happy in here, and why wouldn't she? There were poster on the wall of everything that made her happy. The small army of stuffed animals that lay on the foot of her bed. For someone like Star, this room would be perfect. But today, nothing helped. Not after what happened. Not after Terra...

If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more.
If I don't pick up, pick up... The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil

Star could feel the tears start to build behind her eyes again. "Why?" she asked herself over and over again. Why had Terra had to sacrifice herself like that? Why had she had to redeem herself? It made everything so very hard. Starfire had been ready to deal with her once. Before today, all she felt for Terra was a white-hot hate. Terra had been the betrayer, the wolf in the fold, someone who had used them and their trust for her own selfish means.

There are scratches all around the coin slot
Like a heartbeat, baby trying to wake up,
But this machine can only swallow money.
You can't lay a patch by computer design.
It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs.

Tell her,
Tell her she can kiss my ass, then laugh and say that you were only kidding.
That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me.

But then, everything had changed. In one swift second, Terra had made them forget about all that. She had done one last good thing.. and it had cost her everything. But how could that be? Why did Star feel pity for someone who had betrayed her and stolen her belief? She had talked to Robin, but even he hadn't been able to make sense out of it. All he kept saying was, "It's a stage. It'll pass." But that had to be a lie. If it was natural then nothing made sense. If such a strange and hypocritical thing could fester in her heart, then how could anything else make sense? And how could it ever go away?

Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me.
Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial.
A can of beans or blackeyed peas, some Nescafe and ice,
A candy bar, a falling star, or a reading of Doctor Seuss;

But what if it wasn't a lie? What if it was a truth? After all, hadn't it been like this with her sister? Hadn't she taken all the love and trust Star had felt for her and spit it back in her face? But that wasn't true either. Because despite all that, Star still loved her sister. Maybe then, that was she had to do. Maybe, to finally end this all, she needed to let go of the hate that did nothing but burn her. Maybe Starfire had to forgive Terra, as she had forgiven her own family. That forgiveness, that love.. maybe it was the salve that she needed. But would she ever be able to use it? Would she ever see Terra again and tell her all this?

The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way,
Always had a smile and a reason to pretend.
But their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream.
The sidewinder sleeps on his back.

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.
I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.

We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one.