PRIDE

BACK BEFORE WHEN I WAS BORN

THEY THOUGHT A GIRL WOULD BE THE NORM

AND LIFE FROM THERE WOULD PEDDLE ON SO SWEETLY

BUT A BOY WAS BORN TO THEIR SURPRISE

AND THAT'S ABOUT WHEN I SURMISE

THINGS WEREN'T TO GO AS THEY HAS BEEN FIRST PLANNED

FOR TWENTY YEARS AND THEN SOME CHANGE

IT WAS TIME TO RE-ARRANGE

AND PICK A BETTER FORM OF PRESENTATION

FELT SO GOOD IT WAS OBSCENE

THOUGHT I WAS GOD'S OWN KILLER QUEEN

AND DEMANDED TO BE TREATED THE SAME WAY

BUT TIRED EYES AND LAZY STARES

JUST PROVED TO ME THAT NO ONE CARES

CONTINUED TO BE "SIR"'D NEAR EVERY DAY

WENT TO SEE THE EXPERTS RIGHTLY

LEST MY AGONY TURNED NIGHTLY

OR I DID SOMETHING THAT I WOULD REGRET

I DID NOT KNOW JUST HOW TO ACT

TO SHAKE THE HAND OF BLUE-PILLED PACT

OR WHAT THIS REALLY MEANT FOR WHAT CAME NEXT

I HADN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO BREATHE

BEFORE THEY MADE ME UP AND LEAVE

AND FIGURE OUT THE FUTURE ON MY OWN

I LOOKED AT THOSE SURROUNDING ME

THE ONES DECLARING THEMSELVES FREE

BUT I FELT JUST AS SHACKLED AS BEFORE

I CURSED THE CHANGES THAT I HAD

NOT WHAT THEY WERE FOR I WAS GLAD

BUT RATHER THAT MY MIND DIDN'T SHIFT AT ALL

WHERE ARE MY CLAWS? WHERE ARE MY WINGS?

YOU PROMISED ME SUCH BETTER THINGS!

AND THE GODS SAT VACANT AND AFRAID

SO NOW I SIT HERE UNFULFILLED

AND FOR THE FUTURE SCARCELY THRILLED

AND WONDERING IF I'LL EVER BE CONTENT

BETTER NOW TO NOT BE HUMAN

THAN MOPING, HOPING, AND EXHUMING

ANY POSSIBILITY FOR PAROLE

THE COSTS AMISS FOR COSMIC BLISS

AND I'LL WARN THE MASSES ALL WITH THIS

I SWEAR I WON'T FEEL JOY EVER AGAIN

I SWEAR I WON'T FEEL JOY EVER AGAIN