Instead

Why is it that I don’t say?...The truth in how I feel you made...Instead I hold...And why is it that I can’t do...
The life I wish I tell me too..Instead I was told

This shell’s getting to heavy for me...I think I’m getting skinny...Backwards...How I wish I were naked...These clothes I don’t like them...They’re oh so confining

Sometimes I wish I could...Spill from the water...Sometimes I wish I could...drop from the sky...But sadly, sadly...I’m not a chickadee or a goldfish

How many lives to I have to live...To be the mammal and not the fish...Instead I unfold...How many rocks do I have to break?...To see I can, I can’t do...Instead I control...And you...I mean me, myself, you are in there...I want to float...And I...As I try, I try, I try, I try...Instead I blow

I’m not going to be your turtle...Not me, myself...I carry myself backwards...How I wish I were naked...These clothes I don’t like them...They’re oh so confining

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