14 Years

Parlor Hawk
Oh my God, my God,
Can you hear me now?
Oh my God, my God,
What is wrong?
See, I've prayed so hard,
That something you might change
"Days fade tomorrow",
It's all they say
With a name, a name, I was born and raised
With a name, a name, they said that I'd be saved
But what your bible never told me
Is how to live with pain
When you seek, you stalk, and nothing changed
Fourteen years,
It ain't clear- what I'm supposed to be
And I'm not living up to what you thought I'd be
I was young, when you taught me how to stand
'Said in time, I'd learn to be a man
Am I wrong, so wrong,
For being afraid
To take this train across these fifty states,
As I watched the casket close,
On that all-too-cold Yule,
I think about the man I was before
Fourteen years,
It ain't clear- what I'm supposed to be
And I'm not living up to what you thought I'd be
I was young, when you taught me how to stand
'Said in time, I'd learn to be a man