Woman (I Long To Be)

Listen

To what I have to say

Do you really look at me when I’m turned away

Took a wrong turn in a place of longing

level-headed reason is what I’m lacking

No one to say that I’m straying away

My past

Lies under that grave

Cleanse my soul of all the unholy things

That I’ve brought

Upon me

Please see past

This shell

For she is the woman I long

To be

Everything I do slowly kills me

Craving that recognition without the pity

And when will my ambition be matched with reward

Fervor and self-doubt ache in my heart

There’s someone lying motionless in my bed

A familiar kind of face like my own

And I’ll reach for you but my body is

15 steps

Behind my mind

No one to say that I’m straying away

My past

Lies under that grave

Cleanse my soul of all the unholy things

That I’ve brought

Upon me

Please see past

This shell

For she is the woman I long

To be