not this time

Breaking Chains of Conformity: 'Not This Time' by Ben Ellis
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Lyrics

You said you wished that I was normal

You expressed a desire for me to be ordinary

I didn't care

I didn't mind or concern myself with that

Sorry but I'm just not that boring

Apologizing, but asserting that I'm not uninteresting

Guess life's unfair

Life seems unjust or unequal

Don't need a degree

I don't require a formal education

I'm sick of just being

Fed up with merely existing

Anybody

Feeling like anybody, lacking individuality

Please let me be

Requesting to be left alone

You wanna tear me down and leave me hanging

You want to criticize and abandon me

Say that I won't know better

Claiming that I won't understand better

Until I'm twenty-nine

Not accepting advice until the age of twenty-nine

I won't take my advice from

Refusing guidance from someone emotionally numb

Someone who's dead inside

Rejecting counsel from someone lacking vitality

I never wanna be you

I never aspire to become like you

Living your nine to five

Avoiding a conventional nine-to-five lifestyle

You thought that I would sit and take it

You expected me to endure it, but not this time

But not this time

Determined to overcome the obstacles you imposed

I'll break the barriers that you lifted

Intending to commit a rebellious act

I'll cause the crime

Planning to defy societal norms

You made me believe that you could just be

You convinced me you could just exist

Took what was left of me

Took away what little remained of me

Please let me be

Requesting again to be left alone

You just hold onto me and drag me under

You're holding onto me and pulling me down

Say that I won't know better

Claiming I won't understand better until twenty-nine

Until I'm twenty-nine

Reiterating the age-based resistance to advice

I won't take my advice from

Declining guidance from emotionally lifeless individuals

Someone who's dead inside

Rejecting advice from someone devoid of vitality

I never wanna be you

Reiterating the refusal to become like you

Living your nine to five

Rejecting a conventional, routine lifestyle

Say that I won't know better

Reiterating the claim that understanding comes at twenty-nine

Until I'm twenty-nine

Refusing guidance from the emotionally numb

I won't take my advice from

Rejecting counsel from someone lacking vitality

Someone who's dead inside

Reiterating the resistance to advice until twenty-nine

Say that I won't know better

Declining guidance from emotionally lifeless individuals

Until I'm twenty-nine

Reiterating the age-based resistance to advice

I won't take my advice from

Rejecting advice from someone devoid of vitality

Someone who's dead inside

Refusing to take advice from someone emotionally dead

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