We train for loneliness in seas of faces passing by,
With a thousand kinds of silence we give the world our reply.
They say, "Do this, do that, just fall in line,"
I shatter every mirror, searching for the thousand fractured pieces of my "I".
Like a seed that pushes through the dark,
All the thorns grown inward now become my spark.
I spend my days alone with me, no time for other needs.
My only burning wish is just to live, to plant my living seeds.
I throw my naked self into the world to sink or swim,
To be a part of it, or fight, to lose or else to win.
I turn my room into a kingdom of my own,
With books and night I build a corner, safe and all alone.
Those severed wings are still ablaze, they throb and ache and burn,
In silence I learn to fly, not broken but whole, for my own sake, on my own terms.
Like a seed that has already touched the sky,
All those inward thorns are now my light that cuts through every lie.
I spend my days alone with me, no time for other needs.
My only burning wish is just to live, to plant my living seeds.
I throw my naked self into the world to sink or swim,
To be a part of it, or fight, to lose or else to win.
You see me dancing on the wreckage of what's been,
I will not trade my grief for mercy, cheap and thin.
If fate's a chasm of an endless night,
I am the lightning bolt that rips a path of burning light.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Even if only ashes seal the vow we write.
My solitude is sharp as steel, it cuts through endless night,
Just to see the real world once, with my own eyes, before I lose my sight.
I spend my days alone with me, no time for other needs.
My only burning wish is just to live, to plant my living seeds.
I throw my naked self into the world to sink or swim,
To be a part of it, or fight, to lose or else to win.
Throw it to the world… to join or to defy…
Throw it to the world… where silence is my battle cry…
Throw it to the world… throw it to the world…