She Played - Leila

Let me tell you about a girl imprisoned in a world

Of pain and poverty where complacency’s a skin

A defense mechanism that she refused to wear and she

She played she played she played…

Ooh she played

She held the answers in her fingers

She played she played she played…

Ooh she played

Saw the world with her guitar didn’t have to go that far

She believed in her divinity played until her hands were raw, till she touched

the face of God

She’d go there in her dreams

…she played

(Repeat Chorus)

She knew that conformity meant she’d join the misery

all she had to do was look around

these were more than nylon strings

this was hope on angel wings

an open door would swing if she just played

(Chorus 2x) (Bridge)

she’s the courage of the single mother

trying to raise her child

the persistence of the man who knows

he has to walk a mile

the underdog… the immigrant

who held onto a dream

the integrity and strength that lives

in you and me…

(change) she knew be realistic

is another way to say you’ll end up a statistic

it’s always been this way

but she was not defined by those outside herself

it didn’t make any sense to keep her heart on the fence

and so she played