You Let Me Be

You Let Me Be - Melissa Ferrick/Ani Difranco

Today I met

A part of myself

That's been hiding out in the back

This part of me

That feeds on lonely

The part of me that keeps people back

I greeted her

With open arms

I laid myself

Right down inside

And I found a new kind of quiet calm

I've got me a new way to feel alive

'Cuz youuu you see right through me

Yea youuu let me be

I do not wish

My lonely gone

I like to savor the space

I want to honor all the parts of me

That ask me

To take time away

A wakefulness immediate life

Away from the surface

Yea break through the ice

In the heat of the darkness I have found

I got me a new kind

Common ground

'Cuz youuu you see right through me

Yea youuu let me be

Forty done forty to go

What will I do with my time

Well I'm able to walk able to

Sing able to give able to cry

I want to make sure when I look back I smile

I smile

'Cuz youuu you see right through me

Yea youuu let me be

Yea youuu you see right through me

Yea youuu you let me be

You let me be

You let me be