Empty
No place at the table
No name on the door
I grew up
like a shadow in the hall
Blending right into the papered wall
They talked about tomorrow
like I
wasn't there
A quiet burden
too heavy to bear
(ooh,
ooh) I learned to keep my footsteps light
To disappear before the night
Oh,
I was a guest in a house not a home
An extra room where the cold wind blown
Trying to earn what should have been free
Looking for love they didn't have for me
I watched the other
families in the park
While my own house was quiet and dark
No photographs of me
upon the shelf
I had to learn to
raise myself
Oh, I was a guest in a house not a home
An extra room where the cold wind blown
Trying to earn
what should have been free
Looking for love they didn't have for me
(they didn't have for me)
Now I walk through my own front door
I don't have to
hide
anymore (ahhhh)