Breathe For Tomorrow

I was told I should breathe for a better tomorrow
That I can’t live life without hope and in sorrow
I should be optimistic and have faith
That I won’t always hurt and will be safe
But how can I really believe
When hope is more than what I can conceive
The world was never a nice place
I was never an ordinary case
I don’t like the soul in me
I don’t like the reflection I see
I hate the heart that beats in me
I hate who I turned out to be
I hate the blood in my veins
Sometimes it’s like I don’t have brains
I don’t know how I can breathe
What I want is to relieve
I want to relieve the pain inside
I need someone to confide
Tomorrow is another day
But will it hear what I have to say
Will it let me know the world?
Will it let me be the perfect girl?
Take all of my dreams
I’m bursting at the seams.
I can’t always live in my world of imagining
Sometimes I wish I was back at the beginning
When I really didn’t know better
When the hurt didn’t matter.
This is the price of getting older
As I age, my heart gets colder.
They told me to breathe for a better tomorrow
But I’m drowning in a pool of my own sorrow.