To Simply Be

Whose dreams am I carrying
While mine starve at the door?
How much of me must disappear
Before you ask for more?

Why does sorrow know my name
Better than love ever could?
Why do I have to earn my place
When being here should be enough?

I don't need a kingdom
I don't need the stars
I don't need the whole wide world
To understand my scars

I just wanna live without fear
Breathe without saying I'm sorry I'm here
I wanna love, I wanna be loved
Without waiting for the door to shut

Tell me, am I really too much?
Is wanting to exist asking too much?
I've spent my whole life fighting just to be
Do I not deserve the same right to be free?

I've stood before a thousand walls
Built by hands that never climbed
They tell me I should carry on
While leaving all my dreams behind

Every shadow knows my footsteps
Every locked door knows my face
And I'm tired of begging people
Just to leave me a little space

I don't need a kingdom
I don't need the stars
I only want a life that's mine
Without collecting scars

I just wanna live without fear
Breathe without saying I'm sorry I'm here
I wanna love, I wanna be loved
Without waiting for the door to shut

Tell me, am I really too much?
Is wanting to exist asking too much?
I've spent my whole life fighting just to be
Do I not deserve the same right to be free?

Why must I be sad
When I only wanted love?
Why must existing feel
Like I'm never enough?

Maybe I was never too much
Maybe these walls were just too high
Maybe I was never meant to spend
My whole sad life asking why

I just wanna live without fear
Breathe without wishing I could disappear
I wanna love, I wanna be loved
Without wondering when I've had enough

No, I am not asking too much
I'm only asking for what everyone wants
Beneath every shadow, there's still a heart in me
Still asking for the right to simply be

Whose dreams am I carrying
While mine starve at the door?
I don't want another kingdom

I just don't want
to beg anymore.