Learn to Dance in the Rain

She was a girl with a broken past

Wounded memories leaking from a soul like shattered glass,

Livin’ life always lookin’ back; knowing every day could be the last.

The face in the mirror never stops mockin’,

Just five pounds on the other side of fat.

She doesn’t think she’s beautiful;

Nobody’s ever told her that.

Surrounded in an ocean of faces,

She’s just one of a million stares.

Lonely in a sea of friends

She still can’t breathe.

Can’t you see that you’re smothering me?

Screaming but she doesn’t have a voice to be heard;

Just one more freak who’ll never belong.

She doesn’t think she’s beautiful;

Nobody’s ever told her that.

No one to miss her if she’s gone,

She sits alone in a darkened hallway,

Tears she always tries to hide running down her face.

Nobody ever told her love is a moment of grace,

Nobody ever loved her anyway.

She looks up to see a face that mirrors her own,

The eyes she finds can see her soul.

Darling, I felt that I should tell you,

You are beautiful to me.

She doesn’t think she’s beautiful,

Nobody’s ever told her that before.

Before no one bothered to explain;

Life is about learning to dance in the rain.