Afraid Again - Orlando

Afraid again, you lie awake crying,

From nothing to link with, or to love

«To hang on some arm, beaming «Other Half» charm?

«Well it isn’t me.

«Life gracefully spent as a mute supplement,

«Well it’s not to be…»

So you lie afraid again,

'Cause freedom brings only,

Half-lives as half-lived as ours…

Afraid again, you lie there regretting,

That people never speak like, or LOOK like, the way they write

To want to belong and not know why that’s WRONG,

Well, that’s what we share!

Ill-fitting careers while we bury our tears,

Well we couldn’t dare…

So we lie afraid again,

'Cause freedom brings only

Half-lives as half-lived as ours…

We kiss, but only to smother the words…

And we lie afraid again