Red Corsette - Paula Cole

I am not your enemy

I am not your dream unlived

I am just this song I have today

All I have is melody and string

If Frida Kahlo could see us here together, here today

She’d paint us in some churches, in some feathers, in some gray

She’d see us in our suffering and cut our arteries

And there would flow down fountains, flow down fountains

From my Red Corsette

Whale bone from the killing of the largest peaceful being

Is blue and bound around my waist and will not let me sing

I cannot breathe, I feel too faint just as they’d have me be

But I do not belong here

I am shedding off this, shredding off this

Red Corsette

I am not your enemy

I am not your dream unlived

I am just this song I have today

All I have is melody and pain

I don’t have the words inside

For oceans upon oceans cried

All I have is this song today

And I’ll sing it now for those who cannot

Sing it now for those who dare not

Sing it now for those who know not

Red Corsette