Light In The Hall Paroles

I am falling. I am falling.

Daddy they'll know,
I'll walk funny and they'll know I've been bad.
Daddy please don't, please don't, please don't.
I'm shaking all over.
I squeeze my legs together just as tight as I can.
You can't, you can't, you can, okay okay okay.

I see the tree through my window,
the tree is my friend,
I see the moon through the clouds,
and the stars without end,
I am flying away, I am dying.

Is there a cradle big enough for this little girl?
It wouldn't have to be so very big,
for a girl and a teddy bear and a patchwork quilt.
It's waiting somewhere for me.
just a little girl with a big imagination.
Everyone knows me, I'm an important man.

I get ready for school,
My hair is brushed and pulled tight in a bow,
But I am dirty, I am dirty.
Mommy puts on my coat,
red and purple blotches up and down my legs,
She won't look at me, she won't look at me.

I will run to the park,
I will cilmb on the swing,
I will swing so high,
Up above everything,
'Till a cloud takes me away.

Now I am grown,
on a silver chain I wear a pretty stone,
A friend gave me, to say she loves me.
And to say I can love, and to say I am worthy of it,
it is not easy, it is not easy.

Sometimes I scream,
sometimes I weep like the little girl I never was, I never was.
I tell the story,
somebody stole my life, but I'm taking it back.
I can see colors, I can see colors now.

Tracing the truth through the tangle of lies,
forgiving myself what I did to survive,
I am living. I am living.