Learning

You're stalling You're hurting You long for the voice That escaped you When you were learning you were also forgetting Forlorn in the language that shaped you Eluding you all meaning in this modern self Gather the tools to nurture yourself back to health And love yourself And love yourself and And love yourself, hey And love yourself Bold freedom gets drowned out by the weeping At the blank space down below When you were learning you were also forgetting Forlorn in the language that shaped you Eluding you all meaning in this modern self Gather the tools to nurture yourself back to health And love yourself Eluding you all meaning in this modern self You gather the tools to nurture yourself back to health And love yourself And love yourself and And love yourself Your skin has cracked Your crown, your win Plain and bald, bare and thin Forgive the rack you couldn't bring yourself to pen As tender as your plain and bald and bare and thin I'm stalling And I'm hurting I long for the voice that escaped me