My Stubborn Will Is Learning to Bend

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NOTES: This song was featured at the end of last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy. I need to write a fan letter to the music supervisor for that show, because they consistently pick really wonderful songs by artists I've never heard of (as well as cribbing a Psychedelic Furs lyrice - Into you like a train - for an episode title). I'm not sure who Kendall Payne is, exactly, but she reminds me quite a bit of Heather Nova. ETA: Now that I've listened to this a few times, she reminds me so, SO much of Shawn Colvin. She even looks a little bit like Shawn.

It's a big girl world now
Full of big girl things
And everyday I wish I was small
I've been counting on nothing
But he keeps giving me his word
And I am tired of hearing myself speak
Do you get weary?
Do you ever get weak?
How do you dream
When you can't fall asleep?

I've been wondering what you're thinking
And if you like my dress tonight
Would you still say you love me
Under this ordinary moonlight
I'm so afraid of what you'll say

I'd like to know if you'd be open
To starting over from scratch
I'd like to know if you'd be open
To giving me a second chance

I used to think I was special
And only I have proved me wrong
I thought I could change
The world with a song
But I have ended up in India
With no lamp to guide me home
The strangest place I think
I have ever been
And all this time
I thought that we were friends
My stubborn will is learning to bend

I'd like to know if you'd be open
To starting over from scratch
I'd like to know if you'd be open
To giving me a second chance

It's a big girl world now
Full of big girl things

Posted by Highwaygirl on January 30, 2006 10:07 PM to the category The Key of Life