black box
I just loaded a new draft of Black Box to the DancingBeforeDiana site:
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Lyrics:
you carried that box for so long
black pail with a padlock that you hid away
she told you to reach out ten years
she told you to tell you where you’d be
so for ten years you had this
and were tempted time and time again
but never peeked into the past
no, that would defeat the reasons why you came
life moves so slowly that it looks still
and at the margins you swear that you go nowhere
but it never stops moving down that axis
and you never stop changing
but you know this
this is your home
and you chose this yourself
this is your heart
it’s where you grew the most
these are your friends
the ones you’ll finally grow up with
this is your work
and you work damn hard at it
those are your tools
they took you all ten years to get
this is your art
you won’t have to wait for it
this is the time
when the tide finally turns
this is your voice
and it carries far
this is the prayer
and i say it for you every night
smile and wave
through the window of this tear soaked page
then i’ll let you go
and i’ll be on my way
the fact you were wrong wasn’t failure
you weren’t a poor judge of the things to come
you just couldn’t know all the milestones that would change you
you couldn’t know all the trials that you’d go through
the fact you were wrong was the best part
because your dreams were huge
but not big enough
and that means there’s potential in the future
that i can’t see from where i stand
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