Can you remember when you were just six years old? With a trusting heart accepting everything you're told Anyone bigger must have been right even if they were wrong You'd take what is given, you didn't know better
All your little mind could comprehend was goodness and truth Even when the baddest things were being done to you Ain't it a shame how you pay for your innocence? And you'd take what was given, you didn't know better about
** Loving, cheating, people leaving Dying, living, losing and forgiving Growing, saying no and being who you are
What about the time when you became sixteen years old? With an unsure heart believing some of what you're told Wanting to be someone different, but there's pressure to be the same So you'd take what was given, you didn't know better
All that you could think about was what you should or should not do Every single insecurity was magnified for you Then suddenly you began to feel all the contradictions But you'd take what was given, you didn't know better about **
Now here you are a little older than before You've really been through it and you might go through some more But if there's one precious thing you've learned Is that you can't just take what is given and now you know better about **
We walked arm in arm But I didn't feel his touch A desire I'd first tried to hide, That tingling inside was gone And when he asked me: 'do you still love me?' I had to look away I didn't want to tell him That my heart grows colder with each day
When you love so long That the thrill is gone And your kisses at night Are replaced with tears And when your dreams are on A train to train wreck town Then I ask you now, what's a girl to do?
He said he'd take me away That we'd work things out And I didn't want to tell him But it was then I had to say Over the times we've shared It's all blackened out And my bat lightning heart Wants to fly away