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I thought I had all my shields up.
I thought I was on
real tough ground.
There was no way you could mess with my heart.
There
was no way you could peal back the scars.
I guess I was still scared of
love.
I guess I was still trying to make like I was feeling old pain.
But then you walked in the room.
Your eyes cut through
like laser beams.
Your smile washed away all the old pain.
I thought I
was going to be so tough.
Show how crude and rude I could be.
Now I'm
laid out on the floor.
Weak in the knees. Hardly can breath.
Lost my
appetite.
Looks like you got to me.
Now I'm wondering what this means.
Wondering if you're
hurting too.
Wondering if you feel this new pain.
And I thought they used
to blame
Heart's loving pain on being teenage and dumb.
How can I get
through to you like you got to me?
Cause we're not teenage and dumb, and I
want you.
I saw you running wild and free.
I loved seeing you that
way.
I don't think love should pen someone up.
I want you to run in your
dreams while I run in mine.
And maybe our dreams will run
side-by-side
Running wild and free.
Sometimes I think I'm too hard to love.
Sometimes I think
my dreams take me too far.
I was afraid you wouldn't accept me.
I was
afraid you wouldn't appreciate my dreams
And have faith in my ability to
achieve them.
Was I dumb.
All you ever wanted from a man was the same
level of acceptance.
Now I have to turn my questions on myself.
And my
answer is, "I want you."
Sister of sin was sitting in the
gutter
I could have walked over and
pinched her on the ass
Angel of
mercy was at the altar
so very taken with the glitter of her wings.
I
walked out on the street
I walked out on the street
The wind was blowing through my
skin
I couldn't breath very clear
I wanted to run
I wanted to cry
I
wanted to climb through a hole in the sky
I wanted to prove I was real
I
wish I had just one chance
in my whole damn life to say what I feel
I
wish I could walk out my front door
and squat and let this moon
blood
drip from my body onto the Earth-Mother
and feel some connection to
the Earth-Mother
instead of walking on this concrete street
that makes a
woman so dirty
I ain't no street walking whore.
If we're going to set ourselves free
first we got
to see that we
built our own walls around us
and stop blaming everyone
else
for our pain.
Somewhere, out there, I hear a lone dog howl.
Somewhere,
out there, a dog is running in the moonlight.
Free as the night wind, but
it's cold out there.
I sit inside the walls where it's warm and feel no
pain.
I like myself.
I can howl at the light bulb on the ceiling any
night
So long as the electric bill has been paid.
My walls are around me
for a reason, and when that reason ends,
so do the walls.
Someday I'm going to dance all my demons to hell
And eat
my angels into heaven.
And when it's all been said and sung
I may have
failed in many ways
But no one will say I failed to tell you
I want you,
and then some.
Ho!
