because you're only a girl

[cypher_away]

watch it slip through your grasp
but you keep reaching
and it keeps leaving

the yearning claws at you
while pride says "no, no, no"
and your head screams in agony

because you're only a girl
one lost in the dark,
a dark all your own

silhouettes walk on by
could have been, would have been, should have been
you fail them all

the world keeps spinning
the scenes keep changing
and only you stay the same

because you're only a girl
you believe in truth and love and everything good
but shield your eyes from it all

"this time," you say
your heart hopes and your mind scoffs
there is no middleman here

you're let down, beat down
split lipped and cold eyed
the inside is a shattered mirror

because you're only a girl
you expect too much
and get too less

they all say you're fine
they don't see the hole,
the great decay that grows day by day

it's safer to hide behind the walls
and let them see what they want to see
the actor trapped in the play

because you're only a girl
the emotion bottled up inside
and the pain climbing up and up

you think one thing
your lips say another
all the time, what were you thinking?

the want and the need get tangled up
they tell you what to do and what to think
but how do they know what's inside?

because you're only a girl
not even twenty and so confused
you don't know, so how can they?

because you're only a girl
you fall and you hurt
you make mistakes

because you're only a girl
and that what you'll always be
but is it all that there is?