Femme

I wasn't looking for sexual validation

I was just looking for a bit of recognition

That the face I see in the mirror is the face you see too

That this is worth all the hard things we do

I know that it's clichéd and you don't want to hear it

I know that it's a dress and I could choose not to wear it

I should have cut my hair off when I knew I was queer

It would have made it easier on everyone here

It's not that I'm afraid or scared of gay panic

Or that it's the kind of style I can't really stomach

I love it on them or her or you

It's just that on me it doesn't feel true

And it's a touch of the community feels ill at ease

Because there are some amongst us who have long thought of femininity as a disease

But I like to think it's not that dark

I like to think that we've come so far

And it's a touch touch of the community thinks femininity as a disease

That has long made some amongst us feel ill at ease

But I like to think it's not that dark

I like to think that we've come so far

I like to think it's not that dark

I like to think we've come so far

I like to think it's not that dark

I like to think we've come so far

I like to think it's not that dark

I like to think we've come so far

That time in the bar when they knew I was gay

How I wanted to reach across the counter and say

How could you tell with all this pink?

What about me made you think that I'm that way too?

That you saw me

And somehow in me

Recognised you