I paid my dues, time and time again. For the crimes I've committed, I've done my sentence. Bad mistakes, I've had those too, and it caused me to question who I wanna be? When I reached for those stars, without the wings to take me that far, I lived each day in a helpless dark. And then finally, finally the world opened up to me, and the sun began to shine. And suddenly, that thing that I thought was only in fairy tales, oh with that first hello, and that sweet gentle smile.
I suddenly had a crystal vision, one I kept to myself. But oh how I wrapped it around my dreams, how I wrapped him around my dreams.
They say that thunder only happens when its raining, but when that rain washes you clean you'll know, you'll know of a earth shattering emotion so deep within that you don't recognize it. I never did promise a bed of roses, or the moon, and the stars, the sun, the ocean like other woman did, but he, this guy that changed who I am, saw right through me. And my heart, my God my heart.
That thudded to a melody that he gave, ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom. But still I held my cards close to my chest, with my heart still being put to the test. he knocked me off my feet, he somehow made me feel complete. So there I was, a life with new meaning, cause when I awoke, suddenly I was in love. Suddenly there was beauty everywhere including in his eyes.
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