Emmylou

Try to live like this forever

Love my mom and not upset her

Even my ambition had

To write itself in black

Yeah, I know, it sounded right

And helped my mother sleep at night

But everything to everyone

To you wasn't enough

You could see through

I could, too

Emmylou

All the love I have in me

I understand how I could be

A terrible example when

I take my own advice

I am not the victim, here

And I am not the enemy

So why did I design for you

A face to place your sympathy?

I'll do any fantasy

But nothing that could seem to be

I know this from the agony

Because I don't know how

I believe in common sense

And maybe with coincidence

But I don't believe in heaven

So I have to have you now

You could see through

I could, too

Emmylou