Nice Normal Woman

This is not a song
This is not a poem
This is not the way that you pray,
Or a quick how-to for growing
This is not yours
This is not mine
This is not a road map
Celestial GPS
A vision
A sign
No

See I've been lost
Just like you've been lost
There's a hole in my soul
And I'm told that my timing is off
But y'know that's ok
It's just a space that I'm saving
It's how I choose to sacrifice the night
For the light that will bleed in

But this is not a lesson
I am not a teacher
I'm the quiet of the final credits at the end of the feature
Tell me are you listening?
I guess there had to be someone
To hear the secrets of a nice normal woman

Well let me introduce myself
I am the scene of the crime
I've killed so many hours
I should be doing time
Can do a Monroe smile
I can do Hepburn eyes
I can do heartbroken, wide open, fierce
And pleasantly surprised!
See the beauty of a wreck
Well it can't be overstated
I hug the haters
Change my status to
It's complicated

And I know it's not my time
It's never been my time
I know the deck's been rigged
And the stars never did align
But this is not an epitaph
This is not an ode
This is the crack in the tarmac
The rock that the river will erode
This is one tiny life
And it never will stop coming
The story of a nice normal woman