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helpless and free
1.
I'm sick of being assessed by you - the stick you measure me with is untrue.
I've done enough explaining my actions to you.
but even when I dare to say why it is I feel this way,
you laugh at me and say it's the reason to stay!
I'm just gonna go away, look over my shoulder and say
that you were right all along - that's all you want to hear me say.
chorus.
If I relax for a second with you and accidentally speak some truth,
you just gently remind me I'm supposed to learn to talk like you.
and if I have the cheek to see something you have hidden from me,
you just push me back in line - even my own business isn't mine...
if this is the kind of help you're offering me
then it's got to be better being helpless and free.
2.
I could never pass your test - you had failed so it was best that
no-one noticed that I left.
if this means I have to cope and find ways round things on my own
I'd rather be independent and alone.
chorus
If I relax for a second with you and accidentally speak some truth,
you just gently remind me I'm supposed to learn to talk like you.
and if I have the cheek to see something you have hidden from me,
you just push me back in line - even my own business isn't mine...
if this is the kind of help you're offering me
then it's got to be better being helpless and free.
chorus #2.
if I relax for a second with you and accidentally speak the truth,
you should try and listen for once,
you might learn something new and useful.
if I have the cheek to see something you have hidden deliberately,
you should be down on your knees and grateful
that I don't have power like yours over me...
it's got to be better being helpless and free...
even my own business isn't mine...
clair lewis
1999
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