Let Me Be

The sun cast a spell on your eyes

That wants me to weep and tell lies

For the sorrow you felt in my heart

Was there all along at the start

And hid between the light and the dark

Something you're born with and hope

Will rise and fall like the smoke

But it's pure as the first time we laughed

Like a mother and her newborn in bath

*How I wish I was still young

But you were too young to see

What the years have done to everyone

And how they've set them free

**If I could ask one thing of you

Is say a good word for me

And I'll be better for everyone

And maybe they'd all just let me be

We held hands just like we were 10

The calluses have hardened since then

No one stared like they would back then

I counted the seconds, my friend

And I vowed to give them back in the end

The nail has been driven in hard

But the rust has settled close to the ?path?

I know you hadn't seen it before

But you're always looking up from the floor

And balancing yourself from the poor

*

**

The sun cast that spell on your eyes

That wants me to weep and tell lies

The trouble you felt in my heart

Was there all along at the start

It hid between the light and the dark

Something you're born with and hope

Will fall and dwindle like the smoke

But comes from the fire and ash

It's as pure as the first time we laughed

Like a mother and her newborn in bath

*

If I could ask one thing of you

Is say a good word for me

And I'd be better for someone

And maybe someone would be better for me

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