Gill Musing (Thinking Outside The Box)

I'm stuck here

Life on the rocks

I'll never get out, but I'll keep on

Thinkin' outside the box

It's lonely

Even though they're all around me

Nobody's like me

None of them know

What it's like outside the box

Spent all their lives in walls of glass

Watching the people pass

As they stare and point their fingers

The feeling, the longing lingers

It's like I'm trapped in the stocks

Thinkin' outside the box

The life I wanted was free of filters

Walls of glass and pain

I told myself that this would be the day

But it always ended the same

I always wound up where I started

Sitting round in my socks

Waiting wanting wishing for something impossible

Life outside the box

I wanna cry sometimes when I

See what this room has done to them

They're chasing air, imaginary twins in the light

And are afraid to play in the mud

They should be free, free to live their lives

Instead of staring at the docks

Hoping for something that will never come

Trapped inside the box

Maybe someday someone else will come

And be the one to free us from

All that we have ever done

It's not gonna be me

I've tried too long to understand

Why things do not go as planned

Why we've been dealt this very hand

That keeps us from being free

All I know is that when we do get out

Though I try to convince myself

That the ocean has no keys or locks

When that day comes

There'll always be a part of me

Livin' inside the box