Girl of the World - Dar Williams

Can promise you that I had not planned this

To be a girl of the world

The early clouds disappear

The mountains fill an empty canvas

I had not planned this

The day reveals their beauty

It brings a light into me

So help me understand this

For what I see

Will I be loved?

For what I know

Will I be loved?

For all I feel

For all this fire

Will they say she was the selfish one

Who danced to please her god

And left her work undone?

Am finding that I’m like my country

In the eyes of the world

As the jaguar can survive in our forest

If she’s unseen

Beautifully unseen

So, too, we hide our treasure

But we are lost forever

And so I ask my country:

For what I see

Will I be loved?

For what I know

Will I be loved?

For all I feel

For all this fire

Will you say she was the reckless one

Who held a fragile world

Up to the burning sun?

For what I’ve begun, I am calling out

To the girls of the world

To those who drum and shout and speak your minds

For what you’ve all seen

I am calling

Can we build a world of hearts?

Or shall we live a world apart

With what we’ve all seen?

For all I write

Will I be loved?

For all I say

Will I be loved?

For all I feel

For all this fire

Will they say we were the bravest girls

Who told them what we saw

And saved the lonely world?