Song Description
A story about a young woman breaking free from other peoples images and expectations fo her
| Song Length |
3:57 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Pop - Easy Listening |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed |
Subject |
Determination, General |
| Similar Artists |
Rickie Lee Jones, Jewel |
| |
Lyrics
He watched her grow such a short time.
Held a snapshot of a fragile little girl.
He was gone such a long time...
so many years go by, the photographs the same.
The architect of a bigger plan
hides inside his young girl?s shell.
Triumphant from her hideaway.
Emerging from the one he thought he knew so well.
She will fade away
A shadow of the image in her daddy?s eyes
She will fly away
far from the faded picture he materialized one day
In her eyes he thought he saw a sculpture
carved to comfort him; someone that he could take care of
Days and nights he spent only seeing
a part of her he wanted, hid behind a mask of love.
Engraved in her bone and marrow
lie the shadowed dreams that won?t be shattered.
Has to be all of the things she is.
She may not be the woman that he thinks he knows.
[Chorus]
Though her love runs deep
and she?d really like to please
she can?t turn away from who she is
she needs to be free................can?t they see
[Chorus]