The awakening

Gather yourself, up 'til now there's been no clue

The awakening will be swift and harsh and rude

And it won't be what you know and it won't be what you'd expect

And it will carry with it the force of fear-inspiring wreck

This keeps me up all night, makes me pass the day in bed

And it's caused me such grief, it's been months since I've bled

But I will do what is right, I will do what's expected

No I won't be chastised and I won't be rejected

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But I will wait for you to come around

And I will wait for you to change your mind

And I will give you your one last chance over and over a thousand times

I wanted to be your shelter, I wanted to be your home

I wanted to be your reason and have that reason made known

So no one would know my weakness, no one would hear what I'm thinking

I am the biggest coward; they call the woman of the hour

Doing eighty miles an hour, I roll the window down

And with the freedom heavy on the air, I felt that I would drown

And everything is different, and though freedom had its price

A poor man's Joan of Arc, through the ashes still I rise

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Cause I did wait for you to come around

And I did wait for you to change your mind

And I did give you your one last chance over and over a thousand times

And I will live out of love and I will act out of fairness

And I will be the richness that lies beneath the surface of awareness