I Cant Sing

If you think you can buy what I feel, you are wrong.
If you believe what I say are lies, beyond wrong you are. 
I'm real as real can be, you fool, dont you see?
I'm a girl, of only sixteen.
I still hold hands with my friends.
Sleep overs have no end.
I can not lie, because I want truth.
I tell you what I really think, not what you think will soothe.
What you want to hear, I cant say for sure.
But I swear to you what I say is pure, no lies from these lips.
Young and niave they say, 
They dont even remember the day.
I am smart for a girl my age. 
But I cant explain on this page.
What truth is, what trust will bring,
For that is one thing I cant sing.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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