(these are song lyrics for a song I have written)
I had this peach dress,
With lots of lace,
That I wore with my pink converse
As I raced
Down the hall
With my sister and Noelle Sutton.
And the church looked like a castle
And all the pastor boys were dumb.
And we played with the Holy Spirit
While our mommas spoke in tongues.
But I never liked dresses much
At least when I was young
Nowhere to put your stuff
No climbing trees or having fun.
Found a purple dress
In this place
On a corner in Little Five Points.
The light
That October day
Showed it frail, yet showed me regal.
And Kara tried some hats on
And I tried dresses on one by one
And in the end we both agreed
It should be the simple purple one.
But I never liked dresses much
At least when I was young.
Had to look pretty and stuff,
Too much that could be touched.
Take me back to the streetlights
The fireflies
When it was time to go home.
When I memorized
All of the lines
To ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’
And my peach dress went to Goodwill;
And dresses Grandma made? -- outgrown.
And a purple dress feels really different
When you think it’s for the one
But, I never liked dresses much
At least when I was young.
Had to look proper enough.
Sometimes it’s hard to run.
I never liked dresses much
Fabric to become
Stitched in time, moments woven
That can never be unswen.