Outside All of These Windows

[Verse 1]
Everyone keeps calling this a family
But I don't see my name on any door
Laughing in a language I can't answer
Smiling like they’ve never been at war
[Chorus]
I don't fit in with humanity
Skin and bones
But something else in me
I don't see myself in what they’ve done
If this is what we are
I must be from
Outside all these windows
Watching how they burn the house they love
[Verse 2]
Taught me all the stories of our greatness
Skipped the parts we carved each other down
Say it's just the way it's always happened
As if hurt is how a heart should make a sound
[Chorus]
I don't fit in with humanity
Skin and bones
But something else in me
I don't see myself in what they’ve done
If this is what we are
I must be from
Outside all these windows
Watching how they burn the house they love
[Bridge]
If I feel sick at what we’ve made
Does that make me less the same?
If I can't wear this shared last name
Maybe that's my saving grace (oh)
Maybe that’s my saving grace
[Chorus]
I don't fit in with humanity
Skin and bones
But something else in me
I don't see myself in what they’ve done
If this is what we are
I won't become
Another pair of hands
Striking at the ones I love
Outside all these windows
Maybe I can build a different us
About the Creator
Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior
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