Prodigal Daughter

I come from the cornfields and a long line of farmers

Where you reap what you sow in the same family garden

Keep your head down, go to church, learn your lessons

It's easy to smile if you never ask questions

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I lived in that house and I was a good student

They gave me the path and they knew I'd walk through it

But I saw something else when I looked in the water

I'm the black sheep, I'm the prodigal daughter

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I can't go back now that I've seen the world

I know too much and I can't be that girl

I've still been touched by a heavenly father

I see new life and they see

A prodigal daughter

A prodigal daughter

When I was younger I never envisioned

The place that I come from would come with conditions

My eyes are open and I see it clearly

They only have love for the version I can't be

They only have love for the thought of the old me

The role that I played just to keep them all happy

But is that real love if it makes me unhappy

Is that real love if it makes me unhappy?

I can't go back now that I've seen the world

I know too much and I can't be that girl

I've still been touched by a heavenly father

I see new life and they see

A prodigal daughter

A prodigal daughter

Prodigal daughter

Prodigal daughter

Jesus loves me this I know

For it says in the Bible yeah it tells me so

Jesus loves me this I know

For it says in the Bible yeah it tells me so

And goddamn it hurts every time that it hits me

That most my own blood's on the wrong side of history

They won't understand why that pushes me farther

Why I'm the black sheep I'm the prodigal daughter