I am not some princess who sits waiting to be saved

If I can’t find an opening, I dig my own way

Out of this mess into a bigger one

Where the trees are less but the people just as warm

Safe harbors I’ve known all along this coast

And my feet ain’t even wet

But when I find deep water

I’m jumping in

I play ball with the big girls, I’m 5 feet 1

When the ladies let me talk, I just crack my gum

No pretense, no faking, not some joke that I am playing

One shot is all I got, like a play you are staging

Don’t wait up, I know I don’t call much

But I have my ways of checking in

But when I find deep water

I intend to swim

It’s a world I don’t know but I’m willing to forego all those lessons I learned in swimming school

I’ll swish the salt in my mouth then I am jumping out of this chlorine infested “kiddy” pool

I’m not afraid to be spurned, shot down or burned

I ain’t giving up, I ain’t giving in

When I find deep water

I intend to swim

I am not some cave girl you just throw across your back

I have learned my lesson and I know better than that

I will follow the light to edge of this cave

Then come back to show you the wheel I have made

And if they spurn me, shoot me down and burn me,

Just tell me you’ll still love me as I am

When I find deep water

I intend to swim

When I find deep water

I’m jumping in