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The World Isn't Ready For Me

from Anne Marie, Ghost of the Sea by monkeyheaven

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I tried to catch her eye at work today
To tell her something I've no words to say
But all the rest of them got in the way
And I put my head back down again

I only wanted to convey to her
A genius that's vanishingly rare
But I was forced to the conclusion that
The world isn't ready for me

It simply lacks the understanding
The subtlety and the commanding wit and grace
I'm better than this place
Best quit and leave no trace
For this world isn't ready for me

I'm slowly suffocating in the grey
Among the commonplace and everyday
I need to blaze a trail, to find a way
Like Jimi did at Monterey

I must describe a sharply upward curve
To give her everything that she deserves
She's better than the fools she deigns to serve
But I am better still, my love

It's all so undemanding
For an artist of future standing
Like myself
It's playing havoc with my health
To spend a lifetime on this shelf
Because the world isn't ready for me

I might undergo rebranding
And come back even more outstanding than before
I may be absent from this shore
Until I'm something she can't ignore
Can't do other than adore
When the world becomes ready for me

But the world isn't ready for me

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from Anne Marie, Ghost of the Sea, released March 29, 2013

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