Vanessa Kingsley - Release Me

You say I can be anything and do anything
Then you turn around and confine my mind
Erase my thoughts
Shatter my dreams and make me blind
It's my fault, though, when I find it hard to succeed?
Somehow I'm not trying my hardest to be what I want to be.
I'm supposed to wait for instructions from you?
I'm supposed to do what you want me to do?
No.
I won't stand for it.
I'll keep thinking that there is no limit.
Because if you restrain my mind,
What is there left to think?
If you restrict my dreams,
What is there left to be?
If I follow in your footsteps
I'll lose all of me
Instead of asking what's wrong
Ask me what's right
And I'll explain it to you in the light of night
Don't erase my thoughts
Or try and cage my dreams.
Let me be what I need to be
Do not tie my hands
Or leave me in the sea
Just let me walk my path and start to think and see.

Vanessa Kingsley

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