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Do you feel insignificant and lost?
\nDo you fear you’re wasting life just chasing par?
\nTake comfort knowing that the creature in the mirror
\nIs not necessarily the person that you are
\nAre trapped in a cocoon not of your making
\nBuilt from expectations heaped on you since accident of birth?
\nBreak down the walls and let your wings unfold
\nAnd show the world exactly what you’re worth<\/p>\n
And if they try to put you in your place
\nTo put you in disgrace
\nYou just look them in the eye and say,
\nI am!<\/p>\n
I am amazing
\nI am fantastic
\nI am human
\nI am beautiful
\nYou can’t control me
\nYou won’t destroy me
\nI have strength, I have power
\nI’m on top of the world<\/p>\n
Do you worry about what other people think?
\nLet no-one else dictate what you should be
\nA battle fought and lost can still be worth the cost
\nRespect is rarely given out for free
\nDo you compare yourself unfavourably to others?
\nDo you think yourself the ugly duckling shunned by all the rest?
\nThrow down your mask and show your real face
\nAnd make the world accept you at your best<\/p>\n
And if they try to put you in your place
\nTo put you in disgrace
\nAnd make you want to hide your face
\nIf they try to put you in your place
\nYou just look them in the eye
\nAnd you tell them with a smile,
\nThese words:
\nI am!<\/p>\n
I am amazing
\nI am fantastic
\nI am human
\nI am beautiful
\nYou can’t control me
\nYou won’t destroy me
\nI have strength, I have power
\nI’m on top of the world<\/p>\n
______________________________<\/p>\n
Solo acoustic version released for free download on International Transgender Day of Visibility (31st March 2016).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [soundcloud url=”https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/262359397″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” \/] Do you feel insignificant and lost? Do you fear you’re wasting life just chasing par? Take comfort knowing that the creature in the mirror Is not necessarily the person that you are Are trapped in a cocoon not of your making Built from expectations heaped on you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,31],"tags":[51,52,56,65],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-singles-b-sides-and-one-offs","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-pride","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}