Jailed Heart
Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum
Do you hear that?
Do you feel yourself screaming to be freed?
Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum
Do you feel that?
Do you feel it reverberating against the jailbars of your ribcage?
Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum bum
Can you feel your heart struggling to move
pumping hot lifeblood against the currents of
your fear, doubts, regrets?
Does it ever get tired?
Do you think it ever wants to stop?
Mine does
Every cell of my body used to be deafening
Deafening like the wind in your ears when you go down a rollercoaster
Except there was no coming down off of that machine, much to my delight
Always experiencing 0-G ephiphanies
Just a child with love in her heart, heart screaming to the sky,
screaming her questions aloud, eagerly awaiting a chance to live
Now that I've gotten my chance, my heart just screams for it all to stop
Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum
It's not the questions, it's the answers I've been given
My heart will never stop fighting to live
but I don't want to be weighed down by a limited body anymore
I want to transcend, dance to something besides the beat of my own heart
(The rhythm of my soul?)
Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum
There has to be more to this life than what I alone can accomplish
I don't want to be limited to feats belonging to blood and bone
I can't touch the sky with my feet on the ground