BabyGrace
Refugee
so when you can't see beyond
the black ocean in your eyes
it's then that you would give in
in all your fear
your mouth would follow the rules
and echo the lies ages old
all the while sadness curls its crooked lips
and poises to kill your purity
ravaging the taste of love as it bleeds in its blindfold
you can't see beyond these words,
can't feel like there's light beyond these fortress walls
can't you see the tower you've locked yourself into?
you wouldn't know that the sky still blankets you
and the same sun still would warm your bones
if you'd unwrap the layers of pain you've fostered around yourself
sing it from on high
so loud and so strong that no one could deny
the sky is headstrong blue
a seagull blows in from the storm-swept shore
its shadow dancing along the washed-out sand strip
and you were like the shadow
following some fleeting bit of life in it's headlong journey
not ever realizing
that life is yours, yours to breathe, yours to keep
yours to turn around, yours to make beautiful because
life is beautiful
and now you know
you are the gull, chasing down the wind
and love is all yours
yours to cherish,
and yours to give.
the black ocean in your eyes
it's then that you would give in
in all your fear
your mouth would follow the rules
and echo the lies ages old
all the while sadness curls its crooked lips
and poises to kill your purity
ravaging the taste of love as it bleeds in its blindfold
you can't see beyond these words,
can't feel like there's light beyond these fortress walls
can't you see the tower you've locked yourself into?
you wouldn't know that the sky still blankets you
and the same sun still would warm your bones
if you'd unwrap the layers of pain you've fostered around yourself
sing it from on high
so loud and so strong that no one could deny
the sky is headstrong blue
a seagull blows in from the storm-swept shore
its shadow dancing along the washed-out sand strip
and you were like the shadow
following some fleeting bit of life in it's headlong journey
not ever realizing
that life is yours, yours to breathe, yours to keep
yours to turn around, yours to make beautiful because
life is beautiful
and now you know
you are the gull, chasing down the wind
and love is all yours
yours to cherish,
and yours to give.