This vacancy did not belong Where my soul gives a gentle coercion But this vacancy never belonged, the child is gone. There was never room for the youth And the brick on my head never held me down, it grew with me, but kept me down And the shadows from the past echo to the future Where the child does not belong Where the child should have been gone There is a different person living in every mood change Now i see myself something different No longer stifled by good compulsion. But you don't know what that means And neither do the others Rise with their mothers who define the gifts of talents When mine gave the gift of illness and tough love I have yet to accept So the child grew where she did not belong in a vacancy already taken