Molly Venter - More Than I Take lyrics

Anne pulls and tugs at her shirt, like she's walking in somebody else's clothes. She starts to hum a sad, sad song cause she knows that now it's time to go back home. It won't be the same now Annie, you'll make choices but you won't feel so a**ured. So if you want to tell me something, say it now, cause it'll be harder when we're gone. I thought I knew everything when I got out of high school. So much about people, so much about friendships, and when it's OK to break the rules. A couple years later, I get a slap in the face, cause nobody feels the same hurt, nobody talks the same way. Misunderstanding, I've felt left out, but most times I'm so happy I don't want to come down. So I try to psych myself up, think of adventures yet to come, but I get an oppressively lonesome feeling by the vision of my empty room. And I know I have made mistakes, but I hold my head up and learn to give more than I take. And I am not ashamed to cry on shoulders, ask for hugs, and just depend upon my friends. Years back you drove me up here, took a picture by my door. You handed me a bible, be we never went to church before. And it's like that with so many things, I've got it stuffed into a bag somewhere, I haven't read a page, but I won't forget I put it there. It's hard when you try to give me so much help cause I know you're worried, but I'm scared too and I am harder on myself. So if you treat me like I'm older, I will treat you like I'm older, not some headstrong little adolescent girl. Because all that I am and all that I have, you pa**ed on me, now on my own terms I am equipped to face the world. And all my life I've been running hard and fast, like a stupid cartoon road-runner ignoring what I pa**. Now I see a drop off, and I dig my heels in, and I throw my weight back and come screeching to a halt. And so wavering on the edge, looking on some great divide, I find I'm too afraid to jump, if you push me I might fly. And all your life you've been walking the straight line, now the road has split wide open and you've got so much to decide. So if the pressures in your head start getting loud you may not know it but you still make your family proud. You can't be everything. You can't please everyone, but you can be anything you put your mind to. So let go of the guilt, let go of your pride, hold on tighter to your heart, it's the beginning of the rest of your life.... And I know I have made mistakes, but I hold my head up and learn to give more than I take. And I am not ashamed to cry on shoulders, ask for hugs, and just depend upon my friends.... So I turn to my mom and I turn to my dad, and I want to say thank you, I want to say thank you, because all that I am and all that I have you pa**ed on me now with your love, I'll do my best to face the world.