Forever Alone With Nobody Else; Forever Together With My Own Damn Self

Now I’ve never had a significant other

Just my family, a significant mother

Who taught me that you can direct your own fate

And you don’t need a date to find your soul, mate.

I’ve found myself floating through heaven and hell

And no one to catch me out there when I fell

But myself, no gift, no Nobel

Prize your talents because you don't need others

To tell you that you could be or should be or what to commit

Two years from now I’ll be looking at this

So proud of myself for not wasting my wits

Or whining and giving all up when I felt

Like I got the bad cards right after they were dealt,

Like I was shown the short end of the stick,

I feel I was given the thinner than thick

Because I never was able to impress you

‘Cause no one seems to appreciate just what I can do,

Oh wait, I do.

I don’t give a thought ‘bout you anymore

Well I do, just not sentimental

‘Cause all of those thoughts were just so detrimental

To me thinking I needed praise or approval

From someone I won’t talk to ten years in my future

Now, the only person that I rely on is me,

To heal my own wounds, to sew my own sutures

To make myself happy, to let me be free

To make sure that I get my Vitamin D,

Defend your own self otherwise, you will feel screwed

When no one else seems to recognize what you do.