Shrug It Off
© 2005 Violet Vonder Haar

I cry myself to sleep every night hopin’
it’ll make me feel just a little stronger,
but in the morning I feel
just as weak as before
and I just don’t know
where to turn to anymore.

Where do you go
when you’ve got unanswered questions?
Do you just live it out
and make your life into a mission;
of finding the truth
and the source
of the lies you’ve been told?

Chorus:
And I wonder what you might say,
If you lived in my shoes for a day.
Would you still look at me
the same or would you just shrug it off,
just shrug it off
and go about your day?

I feel like I’m standing
on the top of a wall
and who knows when
my time will come to fall.
I’ve been keeping it in
for all these years
and now’s my time
for me to open up and you to hear;
that the image I’ve portrayed for so long,
it’s a way whole different song
and now that my walls are starting to cave in,
I’m thinking I could
really just use someone to listen.

Chorus

So what can you do?
Well please just listen to me,
‘cuz to be heard right now
is all I need.
And while I’m on my quest for the answers,
I just need you by my side,
Being my friend, my love
and most of all, my guide.

Chorus