There’s a girlhood that I never had
A life I’ll never get to lead
A lament for a lack of nostalgia
A life where never learn to bleed
And you will never know how heavy this is
Like returning an unwanted gift
You will never know how heavy this is
And one day I might be a woman, but I’ll never ever have that
girlhood back
Though I know some things will never change
And that there are many things that may
Looking in the mirror, trying to see a girl
Is getting harder day by day
I will never ever be able to have those experiences back
And sometimes I wish I could miss it
Instead of thinking thoughts like that
There’s something in this darkness
waiting for some light to guide the way out
there’s something in this darkness
waiting to exist
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