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When you're a smallish boy of fourteen,
You're faced with nothing but fear,
You wonder if you'll ever be accepted.
Then glory be, you are fifteen
And question all that you've known
And you've more than just grown
And you feel that you're somehow rejected.
How lovely to be transgender
The wait was hardly worth the while;
How lovely to feel so awkward
And never wear a smile
How lovely to have a body,
That feels oh so out of place;
Whenever you hear the whispers.
You feel like a big disgrace.
It's marvelous to feel
The way a woman feels;
It gives you such a pain once again
You've lost all your zeal
How lovely to be transgender
And have only one lot in life
To imagine a clear bright future
But have it turn all to strife
You've tried to be the woman you'd like to be!
Life's lovely if you're transgender like me!
How wonderful it would be
Just to see what women see
How marvelous to wait for a love
In a simply beautiful form
How lovely to be a transgender
And change into a femme,
To go to fancy rest'rant
And stay out after ten.
How lovely to be so female and free!
Life's lovely when you're a transgender like me
How lovely to be transgender
And find life is not so bad
To imagine a clear bright future
Where fortunes make you glad
You still can be all the woman you'd like to be!
When your real life test lasts until
Two-Thousand and Thirty-Three!
Based on
How Lovely to Be a Woman
From the Musical Bye, Bye Birdie!
Words and Music by
Lee Adams and Charles Strouse
as performed by Ann-Margaret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ilu-ARtiY
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Hmm,
All good things come to those who wait?
Sadly, most of us will experience a real life test that is as long as our stay on the planet. But the test is faking to the world our true selves, masked in a body that doesn't seem to fit.
Hugs,
Carla Ann
Drea...darling...
Sometimes you seem to hit below the proverbial belt. But than again life does that frequently and why shouldn't we all feel it? As usual I love the honesty of your writing and the depth to which you feel, and the way you express those feelings. Don't stop...ever!!!
Mea the Magnificent
BTW...no freckle comments please! I've will them to Angela.
sad, but true
i am feeling its not very lovely for me right now.
how well I remember......
being 14, and feeling like that..... JUST like that!
Sensitive, as ever, 'Drea.
Love your writing.
Ginger xx
Well done
While reading your lyrics, I watched the youtube video of the song as although I'd seen the film on tv as a child I couldn't remember the tune. You've excelled in matching the words to the original.
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
'Drea Hon, You're Amazing!
[email protected] As always your talent has left my jaw on the floor. I first saw the film at about age 12. Of course, I couldn't express much more than a passing interest at the time. My sister was a huge fan of musicals and had an excellent voice. I could sing as well, but after only a year in the choir, dropped out. It just wasn't 'manly' enough. I couldn't give up on music though. Joined the band and spent several years becoming an adequate trumpet player. Then I discovered the guitar. I've been playing ever since.
Just a thought for another song-themed story, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair". It seems to me that the TG theme is already built-in to the title. Any takers? Come on Gals!
Thanks again, 'Drea,
Jonelle.
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A very wonderful write Drea.
We all know that being transgendered for most of us is not a bed of roses without the thorns. But instead those thorns come and stick us right where we sit down. The only way being transgendered is going to be a life worth living is when everybody gets out of that damned proverbial closet and walks proud as the women we are.
This is a lovely write Drea, and it has a message for everyone who is transgendered. Thank you for sharing.
"With confidence and forbearance, we will have the strength to move forward."
Love & hugs,
Barbara
"If I have to be this girl in me, Then I have the right to be."
"With confidence and forbearance, we will have the strength to move forward."
Love & hugs,
Barbara
"If I have to be this girl in me, Then I have the right to be."