Silent Legacy

Melissa Etheridge

Why did you steal the matches from the one room motel

Once they gave you answers, now they give you hell

They will never understand they wonder where did they go wrong

How could you be so selfish

Why can't you get along

And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free you are bound to your silent legacy

You've seen it in the movies and you've heard it on the street

Craving the affection, your blood is full of heat

They don't listen to your reasons as original as sin

Deny all that you feel and they will bring you home again

Your body is alive, but no one told you what you'd feel

The empty aching hours trying to conceal

The natural progression is the coming of your age

But they cover it with shame and turn it into rage

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed

To satisfy the hunger

To satiate the need

They feed you all the guilt to keep you humble, keep you low

Some man and myth they made up a thousand years ago

Mothers tell your children,

"Be quick, you must be strong, life is full of wonder, love is never wrong"

Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear

Refuse to hand it down

The legacy stops here

(sent by glorie)

Ruins

Melissa Etheridge

Don't try to call

There are some bridges that burn beyond recognition beyond repair

Don't say you've changed

There are some forces that turn beyond recollection beyond my stare

When I feel the cold in the dark

I know you're there

Long ago I was a woman in pain, a woman in need

I ran to you

Long ago I did no understand you were making me bleed

I ran to you

When I feel the cold in the dark

I know what you do

I will crawl through my past

over stones blood and glass

in the ruins

Reaching under the fence

as I try to make sense

of the ruins

I know your heart has held its own fear

It's perfectly clear what they did to you

In my heart it's the screaming I hear

I won't let them come near

Since my love knew you

When I feel the cold in the dark

I remember you

Night after night I am carving it out

I will carry it down to the waterside

Night after night I am hearing the sound

Of wings that come beating

I will not hide

When I feel the cold in the dark

I will know why

But if I am to heal I must first learn to feel

In the ruins

I will crawl, I will crawl....In the ruins

(sent by glorie)