Growing Pains

I've bruised my shins Battered my knees Got a long long list of injuries From the things that I've outgrown These bones creak from the weight Of all the unmet hopes that I have laid Just so, so, so, so I - I don't have to be alone I tiptoe instead of walking So I won't make a sound If I could shift my shape to fit The smallest space they made for me Then I'd be safe but I'd be bound Shrink wrapped, out of air So down the rabbit hole I go Find a pill to swallow, make me grow Then I will speak, and I will say This shape of mine is here to stay It will only take a bit of growing pains My spine unbends My mind unwinds Years of atrophy slough off my skin And I am finding now with time I walk tall instead of wondering If I will make a sound If I could shift my shape to fit The smallest space they made for me Then I'd be safe but I'd be bound Shrink wrapped, out of air So down the rabbit hole I go Find a pill to swallow, make me grow Then I will speak, and I will say This shape of mine is here to stay It will only take a bit of growing pains I say sorry far too often Silent when I should say something Hold myself back from this moment When there's so much left to say I say sorry far too often Silent when I should say something Hold myself back from this moment When there's so much left to say I say sorry far too often Silent when I should say something Hold myself back from this moment When there's so much left to say I say sorry far too often Silent when I should say something Hold myself back from this moment When there's so much left to say If I could shift my shape to fit The smallest space they made for me Then I'd be safe but I'd be bound Shrink wrapped, out of air So down the rabbit hole I go Find a pill to swallow, make me grow Then I will speak, and I will say This shape of mine is here to stay It will only take a bit of growing pains