you were watching all the while from a window of a room
no one else could see your movement there
as you brushed a hair from your face
wanting to see more from your lonely place

you were listening all the while to the voices in your head
no one else could hear them anyway
it doesn't matter what they said
maddened by the echoes of your loneliness

you wanted to run wanted to fly
longing to be free from the torment inside
tossing and turning spinning around
the pounding of your heart beating you down

you were wishing all the while on shooting stars
no one else could grant your wishes there
so you were sending them so far
reflected through the pane tears became the rain

you wanted to scream wanted to yell
desperate to be heard through the crack in your shell
but no sound came out as you tried to speak
you couldn't find your mouth or the courage you seek

you were dying all the while within the burning walls of your hell
no one else could see the smoke at all
it was only your desire

I opened my eyes still in a dream
and to my surprise I had no feet
but it was ok for inside my mind
I found that I could fly

I flew up to the top of a tree
greeted an eagle there
If only for a moment or two
he was me and I was free as a bird

I flew out and over the ocean
tasted the salt on my breath
if only for a moment or two
water was me and I was wild as the sea

I flew out through the atmosphere
wandered from star to star
and in a moment as long as forever
they were me and I was everywhere

I opened my eyes still in a dream
and to my surprise
I could fly

break down and cry

no matter how the day breaks it's always the same
for no amount of sunshine can take away the pain
last night I heard your voice calling my name
I had no choice but to

break down and cry

I want to sleep forever if I can find you there
for in my deepest slumber you still care

last night I saw your face it was a dream
another time and place come back to haunt me
last night I heard your voice calling my name
I had no choice but to

break down and cry

you are always there you care for me
never let me down in times of need
and I do cherish you

I will always be
the one you can come to when you need
someone to talk to and to be
a friend to you I will be

what would my life be if I lost you
you are everything it's all for you
It's all you

cherish you

finally I know no matter where I go
the road that takes me to you
is the one that takes me to love

a frightened voice inside my head was drowning out my heart
I tried to run away from love to make it stop

finally I know no matter where I go
the road to finding myself
is on the inside

somewhere along the way I stopped long enough to see
a dark cloud hanging over my head a vision came to me
an image of your heart and it was torn apart
and right before my eyes it went to pieces

finding my way back along the twisted road
that took me away from the one that I love

finally I know no matter where I go
the road to happiness
is the one that takes me to love

finally I know no matter where I go
the road to happiness
takes me to love

his wings are bound in black and gummy
his beak is soiled in the name of money
he tried in vain to get away
but blackness spread like night over day

and in the darkness he began to sink
sucked under by the insatiable greed

sorry they said we made a mess
we tried to clean it we did our best
but as he spoke with words of regret
he crawled through a loophole to conceal his debt

see the water see the sky
see the bird who cannot fly

his wings are bound in corporate constraints
and as he dies they sell themselves as saints
he tried in vain to get away
but blackness spread like night over day

and by the morning he could breath no more
slowly killed by poison that seeped through every pore

sorry they said we made a mess
we tried to clean it we did our best
but as he spoke through clean white teeth
thousands of creatures lay dirty, dying, and dead
at his feet

see the water see the sky
see the bird who cannot fly

"sorry" they said

(The Exxon Valdez oil spill was the worst
ecological disaster of it's kind in history,
however there was a spill off the coast
of Spain in 2002 that could potentially rival
and even exceed it's level of devastation.
Why don't we hear more about this in the News? Hmmm….)

I want to be like the girl in the ad
she is so pretty it's driving me mad
I want to be like the girl on TV
she is so skinny not like me

look at her face not a blemish to see
look at her stomach flat as can be
look at her thigh cellulite free
why can't the girl on the TV be me

diet coke is good for you
they tell you so much you believe that it's true
they make you believe imperfection is bad
you see it so often it's driving you mad

mad about the way you fit into those jeans
mad about the way you look in everything it seems
they tell you, you can fix it with a product you must buy
and hope that your too gullible to know that's it's a lie

you're bought by the things that they tell you are real
you betray your own body for a made up ideal
these are the images they're feeding us with
and you choke on the lies as your starving to death

who can the girl in the mirror be she is so ugly
I hope it's not me I weighed myself today just 93
who can the girl in the mirror be

I want to be like the girl in the ad
she is so pretty it's driving me mad
I want to be like the girl on TV
she is so skinny not like me

look at her face not a blemish to see
look at her stomach flat as can be
look at her thigh cellulite free
why can't the girl on the TV be me
why can't the girl in the mirror be….

(A scary truth is that approx. 80% of the
women or girls that I know personally
have at some point in their lives
struggled with eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia.
Karen Carpenter was one of the first
famous casualties of anorexia some 20 years ago
and the problem has only grown worse…)

and I know it cause I'm alive, yeah I know it cause I'm alive
and I got to show it cause I'm alive, oh I'm alive

sittin' on the porch watch the hours go by
lookin' at the trees feel the breeze blow through my mind
listen to the birds sing without words and how they fly

that's the way life was meant to be
it isn't always sunny but I've finally learned to see
all the little things that shine so brilliantly

lyin' in the grass watch it pass, the sun go down
stare into the sky my oh my the stars abound
thinkin' that today I'm ok in this peace I've found

that's the way life was meant to be
it isn't always peaches but when you finally taste the cream
it's all the better for the bitterness in between
taste the cream