Carolyn Arends

Feel Free

Carolyn Arends


You can fill my crosswords in with ink 
Speak your mind before you think 
Wear your shoes inside my house 
Wear my clothes and wear me out 
You can lose your head or spill your guts 
I'm your friend I'm not your judge 

Chorus: 
Feel free to laugh or cry 
Feel free to wonder why 
Feel free to dance or grieve 
You are safe when you're with me 
Feel free 

You can change your plans or change your mind 
A million, billion, trillion times 
Raise the roof or pound the door 
Climb the walls or hit the floor 
You can run with scissors if you must 
But it'd be better if you just 

Repeat chorus 

To pray or scream or say or dream anything you want to 
To tell me every secret thing about the ghosts that haunt you 

And you can open up your closet wide 
There's no skeleton inside 
Worse than ones I call my own 
Rest assured you're not alone 
And together we can face that stuff 
Till at long last both of us 

Repeat chorus