Free

[Verse 1]
I'm just a baby, still a baby, trying to figure it out
My intuition couldn't listen but it's listening now
And I'm hearing me saying it after years of not saying it
I was drowning in waves of it, like all of the time
Kissing my sanity, like "Shut up, Caroline, you aren't crazy"
And now I know why

[Chorus]
It wasn't easy, it wasn't patient
Having the arrow but not knowing where to aim it
Out in the open, it isn't painless
And it may never be
But this time I get to be
Free, free
Free, free
It isn't free being free
And it may never be

[Verse 2]
And now I'm sitting on the couch and Lauren's holding my head
(Laying on the couch, holding your head)
Now there's before and therе is after, that's what she said
(Therе is before and there is after)
And I'm hearing me saying it after years of not saying it
I was drowning in waves of it, like all of the time
Kissing my sanity, like "Shut up, Caroline, you aren't crazy"
Ah, and now I know why

[Chorus]
It wasn't easy, it wasn't patient
Having the arrow but not knowing where to aim it
Out in the open, it isn't painless
And it may never be
But this time I get to be
Free, free
Free, free
It isn't free being free
And it may never be

[Post-Chorus]
It may never be
It may never be
(At least I get to be free)
(This time I get to be free)

[Outro]
Free
I had to know I'm not alone to let it out
I had to let a little go to feel it now
And when the lonely and the tears come back around
I got my love, I got my friends, to hold it down
I had to know I'm not alone to figure out
Everything is not my fault somehow
And I am more than when I had to go without
That I won't leave her now
Say you can be my family and I will hold you close
If someone understands me
Then finally, I know