Set Me Free Poem by Robert Mahoney

I feel you breathing down my neck
That smell of panic on your breath
You're holding on so goddamn tight
So afraid that I won't last a night
On my own
So sure that I'll screw up my life

[Pre-Chorus: ]
Loosen your vicegrip on me
'Cause now you gotta let me go

[Chorus: ]
All my life you been riding my back
Why don't you cut me some slack
I need a little room to breathe
How the hell do you expect to relax
When you're dwelling on past
Never letting go of anything
Goddamn you better set me free

'Pull your head out of the clouds
Get your feet back on the ground'
You've told me this ten thousand times
So scared that life will pass me by
And knock me down
But I won't go down without a fight

[Pre-Chorus: ]
Loosen your vicegrip on me
'Cause now you gotta let me go

[Chorus: ]
All my life you been riding my back
Why don't you cut me some slack
I need a little room to breathe
How the hell do you expect to relax
When you're dwelling on past
Never letting go of anything
Goddamn you better set me free

[Bridge: ]
Hey set me free
Just let me be
Quit trying to save me please
And if I fall well, that's the price I must pay
for the choices I've made
I just gotta pick myself up again
But there's no doubt in my mind
When the floodgates have fallen
I will stand tall against the waves

[Pre-Chorus: ]
Loosen your vicegrip on me
'Cause now you gotta let me go

[Chorus: ]
All my life you been riding my back
Why don't you cut me some slack
I need a little room to breathe
How the hell do you expect to relax
When you're dwelling on past
Never letting go of anything
Goddamn you better set me free

[Chorus: ]
All my life you been riding my back
Why don't you cut me some slack
I need a little room to breathe
How the hell do you expect to relax
When you're dwelling on past
Never letting go of anything
Goddamn you better set me free

Goddamn you better set me free
Goddamn you better set me free