You Don't Know Me

You don't know me
You can't see me
You don't want to hear the words
    I'm sayin'
And that's the way it goes
when families get too close
they get a glimpse of something far
    too frightening to hold

Yes we wear our masks
We keep them quite intact
and we don't want to know who's
    behind those faces
We harbor and conceal
what severed nerves reveal
asking much of one person to feel alone

I was once your child
and you were all I had
and I was all you thought you
    ever wanted
But choices take their toll
you learn what you're told
and you are getting older...
so am I

I'm a light sleeper
I'm a heart breaker
I'm a singer in the stormy lights
But I have found my home
safer than the womb
that I screamed and grieved from

I come as no surprise
you probably realized
I'm a lover of the woman kind
I offer no regrets
you cannot take me back
to the place where you once held
    all control
you want control

You don't know me
You can't see me
You don't want to hear the words
    I'm sayin'
And that's the way it goes
when families get too close
they get a glimpse of something far
    too frightening to hold
frightening to hold...
you are getting older...
so am I

Denice Franke - Acoustic guitar, vocal.
Mike Sumler - Piano.
Glenn Fukunaga - Electric bass.
Eric Demmer - Saxophone.