You Set Me Free

You Set Me Free                                              March 8, 2006

You up and left me

For no good reason,

A reason I once didn't comprehend,

But I get totally now.

You up and left me

With a feather on the tip of my nose,

But I couldn't even fathom to guess

What was on your mind

Until the clock surely showed.

You set me free

When I wanted to be locked away

In a prison with you forever.

Instead, you let me go

Out of disdain, not love,

And what have I to do

But grieve and mourn

Or hit the whiskey and celebrate?

Baby, I ain't what I used to be at all.

I have my identity.  I do.

And baby, I choose to use my identity

To gain the strength and personal knowledge

Capable of being harnessed by me.

The pain was almost too great

When you left me high and dry,

But then I realized

You are a damper to my spirits,

And that maybe, that was just what I needed,

For you to go away.

Now, I'm achieving great things, big things,

Stuff I couldn't do before

All because you held me back

For your own pleasure, but not mine.

Relationships grow and die

Depending on mutuality,

And ours never had that

And was lacking so much

In respect, which translates out to love.

Baby, you were sure pretty,

But this ol' feller didn't deserve your crap.

Believe me, when you set me free,

It was like the day

When Moses parted the Red Sea.

I was emancipated, free to be myself

And without you.