So long ago I knew
my body wasn't me
too scared to say a word
and so I acted differently
Males don't like make-up
and real men don't cry
Alpha, domineering, tough
Oh, but that was never me
So long ago, I acted
like the girl that I was
Everyone just told me
to only be myself
This girl that they saw
they thought was just a phase
they chided me so endlessly
they said I was a shame
I hung my head in sorrow
and stuffed it way deep down
my tears, they fell like rain drops
The damage that this did is evident right now
Forgotten and abandoned
in a dark and musky cell
what should have been my girlhood
was locked away inside
Forced by social construct
to grow up as a man
But this girl left inside my mind
she never went away
She grew up deep inside me
never saw the light of day
This girl there inside me
has been screaming to come out
Now the voices grow much louder
these people from my past
The very ones who hurt me
think they'll be laughing last
The cell door of her prison
has been opened for her now
and slowly she is creeping out
still haunted from the past
When a prisoner is set free
you would think they'd run for freedom
But the demons of her trauma
are screaming vicious lies
This girl is now grown
looking to the future
still stuck in hurtful times
but she's met someone so kind
Feeding fire to her rage
This girl's life of torment
has really made her change
but still she sings sweet songs, her spirit hasn't aged
This girl knows there's healing
and healing comes too slow
In truth there's always justice
and justice hears her pleading
Like a miracle from nowhere
truth sets her heart to beating
with a passionate desire
to live her life so openly
Now this girl taking shape
she cannot be denied
She is out and breathing thankfully
because she doesn't have to hide
