Notes

Imagination Forest (Ia)

The summer breeze has knocked at my door, the birds, they sing a little song
Let in the breeze, go open up a window and sing along
I look up and smile from my hiding place
And place my book back onto my lap, then I say
"Oh hello there, is there anything that I can do to help you?"

The world is quite simple even with a blindfold covering both my eyes
But no one gets how much harder I have to work to try and fit in
Does anyone even know that I'm here? Inside this dark, lonely forest is where I reside
Guess I'll keep telling myself that's why no one visits at all

"Don't make eye contact!" My mother used to tell me
So now I've made my mind to be lonely yet
Don't even know how long it's been since I've seen another face
All of the things that I know, they come from a book
Dusty shelves filled with knowledge that I say is fine
So please forgive me if I wanna say 'what's your name?'

Feel a smile, a faint place in heart
Because there's life in every place if you just look hard enough
And that includes me
This irrationality
Tell me, oh, will the day ever come
Where I can find a wild, wild world somewhere I can hide from
I don't really care when but
I wonder when it will knock on my door?

Wildest dreams and fantasies too
I think of gazing out the window
What do I hear but a lonely voice speaking from right outside my door?
My half-drunk herb tea's knocked over again
And so I sigh, whisper half-heartedly
"What do I do?"
That's a question I don't know a straight answer to

"Our eyes are special, one look can turn you to stone,"
My mother said to me like she'd heard before
And I guess I turned out the same way that she did years ago
These fairytales that I read, monsters never hide
And their powers are hidden in rather plain sight
I guess that I'm a monster too, am I right?

Thumping sound, what is this that I've found?
Maybe a knock at my door finally after all this time someone's found me
I'm nervous, but I'm ready
Can I say when this wild world came
I was surprised at how easily it all came to me
Been waiting there all this time
Outside my lonely and dull home for one

Cower as I open the door, see you standing there
"If I look you in the eye you'll turn into stone..."
Smiling almost playfully "I'd lived in fear as well,
Scared that one day too my heart would turn to stone...
Then one day I realised that the world would be better off
Without all of these feelings of fear swallowing me up
Living out a future of happiness, adventure
We don't need fear at all..."

I now know, of a world I've been shown
And this imagination I've been given is ringing out
Into the world, let's go and live our lives out
Tell me now, 'bout this future I didn't know about but if it's still here when I'm soon found
You'll be waiting, I know, let's walk on this world that'll always astound

The summer breeze has knocked at my door, this hood that you gave to me long ago
I let it sway in the breeze, like the smooth summer song of the birds...