Let Me Be Me

from Strings by Shubha

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I pull pavement in my stride
to show me I am all I need.
I make up long lists of numbers
to cover all the ways I bleed.

And my eyes were always mirrors
you couldn’t see inside of me,
‘cause the common ground I knew of
was never under my own feet.

But a day came when I weakened,
and I forgot my mirrored eyes,
so that I gave away my secrets
in exchange for pretty lies.

I never needed any keeper
to lift me from my knees,
I never needed your advances
all I wanted was to be.

So let me be me, I don't want to live in your shadow today.
Let me be me, I'm tired of losing my way, losing my way.
So let me be me, I don't want to live in your shadow today.
Let me be me, I'm tired of losing my way, losing my way.

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from Strings, released July 4, 2014

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