Isabel

I've been tryin' to find time to find myself again
I've been playin' with the tendons in my hands
I've been tryin' to learn how to be my own person
Instead of trying to be interesting

Fuck never being quite enough
Fuck being a second-favorite
It was never up to me anyway
This isn't about love
But that doesn't make it painless
Guess I'll be the one who has to say

"You don't have to be good all the time
You don't have to have the answer
You don't have to be right
You don't have to be the strong one
You don't have to be liked
You're allowed to bleed outside the lines
Isabel, you're allowed to change your mind"

I've been makin' new friends and listening to them
I've been laughin' on strangers' couches
I've been thinkin' about how I talk to myself
How my words cut like no one else's

Fuck never being satisfied
Fuck a pity party
I'll never be a machine
I always wanted to be so unfeeling
But where has that ever gotten me?

You don't have to be good all the time (all the time)
You don't have to have the answer
You don't have to be right (you don't have to be right)
You don't have to be the strong one (the strong one)
You don't have to be liked (you don't have to be liked)
You're allowed to bleed outside the lines (bleed outside the lines)
Isabel, you're allowed to change your mind (mind)
Oh, oh, oh, oh

You don't have to be special, you don't have to be anything
You don't have to move on if you aren't ready
You don't have to set examples, and you don't have to lead
You're allowed to want, and you're allowed to leave

You don't have to be good all the time
You don't have to have the answer
You don't have to be right
You don't have to be the strong one
You don't have to be liked
You're allowed to bleed outside the lines
Isabel, you're allowed to change your mind