One day I awoke, strangely to find
the person I used to be gone, left behind
Somewhere, somehow, I became someone new
Who was much less like me, and a lot more like you
The changes were subtle, I did not even know
Until people asked me, just where did "you" go?
It appears I gave up being me just to please
the person I once proposed to from my knees
But the strangest thing is, I did not even see
the way you genetically, modified me
I looked like the me, that everyone knew
but instead of myself, to you I was true
And now that I see it, and begin to turn back
you're angry and bitter and start to attack
You think that there's someone else I now see
But don't see how that someone else can be me
I don't like the person, with you I became
It's not all your fault though, I'm partly to blame.
And just as I let you make me not the same
it is I that must choose my old self to reclaim
So from now on my dear our ways we must part
There's no place anymore for you in my heart
I'll put myself first, be alone for a while
Until I can look in the mirror and smile
And see there once more who I used to be
the reclaimed original version of me
Apr 10, 2010
Apr 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM UTC
One day I awoke, strangely to find
the person I used to be gone, left behind
Somewhere, somehow, I became someone new
Who was much less like me, and a lot more like you
The changes were subtle, I did not even know
Until people asked me, just where did "you" go?
It appears I gave up being me just to please
the person I once proposed to from my knees
But the strangest thing is, I did not even see
the way you genetically, modified me
I looked like the me, that everyone knew
but instead of myself, to you I was true
And now that I see it, and begin to turn back
you're angry and bitter and start to attack
You think that there's someone else I now see
But don't see how that someone else can be me
I don't like the person, with you I became
It's not all your fault though, I'm partly to blame.
And just as I let you make me not the same
it is I that must choose my old self to reclaim
So from now on my dear our ways we must part
There's no place anymore for you in my heart
I'll put myself first, be alone for a while
Until I can look in the mirror and smile
And see there once more who I used to be
the reclaimed original version of me
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