Abbey's Road Home
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When I was in college, I struggled with my identity...I thought that the songs which I borrowed for this piece below were written just for me...I feared what it would be like if I ever came out to my family...I never did...and I wept |
Prayed there was a way to feel at home
Sleep pretty dear try not to cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Troubled slumbers fill your eyes
Tears awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty girl try not to cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Boy, you're going to carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you're going to carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
They never give me acceptance
They just invite me with limitations
And in the middle of their expectations
I break down
Girl, you're going to carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Girl, you're going to carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Oh yeah, all right
Will this be all there is?
Tonight
Maybe someday
The hope you live
Will be the hope you give
You never give me acceptance
You only give me your ultimatums
and in the middle of communication
I break down
I never give you my number
Cause if I did you'd just reject me
So what's the point, you'd just hang up and
I'd break down
On my own so who would care
See no future, it's not fair
Family doesn't care, nowhere to go
Thought about it, where to turn?
Christmas morning, might return
Maybe there's a welcome for me now?
But oh, that sad rejection, nowhere to go
Oh, that tragic feeling
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
One sad dream
Pick up my life and move so far away
Soon we'll be gone from here
Walk down the road and wipe those tears away
One sad dream came true... today
Came true... today
Came true... today...yes it did
A 2, then 4, then 6, then 8
When did it turn from love to hate?
She came back home while in transition
She prayed they all would understand
She failed to pass all their inspections
Couldn't meet all of their demands
Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
The family had no intention
of greeting who she'd come to be
She said she'd always been a female
She said it went back all the way
And though she thought they would accept her
It would not be that Christmas Day
And so she quit trying to appease them
She had her fill of all the strife
She knew she'd never ever please them
So she cried and got on with life
Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody say?
The family had no intention
of loving her on Christmas day!
And in the end
The hope you live
Will be the hope you give
compiled from work by Lennon & McCartney
from the Album Abbey Road