The Wallflowers Be Your Own Girl song lyrics

I know you're tired of wakin' up on the floor

Pushed to the edge with nothin' heavy to hold

Usin' your clothes as a blanket and a bed

Holdin' your hands just to lay your head.

I know you don't remember ever fallin' down

Who picked you up, who gathered around

But you don't have to be his girl,

and you don't have to be my girl,

you can always be your own girl.

With the sound of your feet you follow yourself to sleep

Restless and ageless and lookin' for something to keep

When you finally fall asleep you're awake in dreams

Hangin' by the ankles in the skeleton ravine.

I know you can't relax / your candle wax / you kicked the lights

fell on your shoes

Punched out the colors, leaving you the blues

But you don't have to be his girl,

you don't have to be my girl,

you can always be your own girl.

There's a soft melody that's ringin' in your ears

Simple and slow and always brings you here.

With broken crayons you've scribbled on the wall

Shapes of nothing and shadow boxed them all.

Your fingertips are broke, and your knees don't bend

Your imagination took the worst hit and cut its skin

But you don't have to be his girl,

and you don't have to be my girl,

you can always be your own girl.

There's a soft melody that's ringin' in my ears

It's the same one you could never avoid in yours

And if you lay down you can hear from tongue to tails

About a tattooed rhythm and drummin' by color wheel.

Your rung is broken on the bottom of the rope

And you can't tie another, another knot of hope

And you don't have to be his girl,

And you don't have to be my girl,

You can always be your own girl.