Shields - Awaken I Am, Ricky Thomas

I’ve had my turn

Avoiding blind shoulders

Take this indulgence

It’s something I should know

These crowded spaces

New and old faces

Preparing their cages

Like dogs around a bone

It makes the mirror harder to see

Live with the burden

Beneath the defeat

These rules will always be guiding me

Always be finding me

I stand on my own

Quiet I bide my time

Waiting for you all

To drag me from my throne

I gave you my all

All forgotten

Within your reach

A rhetoric sign to be left alone

(In my eyes) I feel I own this right

(In my mind) But I’m not feeling alright

This time

There’s yours and there’s mine

Our place has been divided

(In your eyes) By a subconscious line

(In your mind) That we must now intertwine

This time

I won’t compromise

I won’t be disguised

By a hand in tonight

I’ve taken chances deploring advances

What must I lament for

Somebody to leave me whole?

Take your toll

From patient to anxious

The future is letting you near

And I feel like I’m the only one

Reveling in seclusion

Savoring silence

Waiting for resolution