Chosen - Rose Cousins

Take these arms, these legs

They are broken

This love is too much

I am frozen

And I don’t know if I have what it takes

To be chosen

I arose with wings, and I am flightless

Someone’s carving a statue in my likeness

And I will never live up to this portrait

I’m just posing

And I don’t know if I have what it takes

To be chosen

Give me a sign, a photo, a map

Something to go by

How am I supposed to know

What I’m supposed to look like

I’m leaving dust

Running fast like I’ve always done

From everyone

Stepping up to know battles

No, I never win

Laces undone and I am always falling

Dodging my own heart like a bullet

Full of failure and sin

And I don’t know if I have what it takes

To be chosen

I am tired, worn thin from

Healing wounds inflicted by my own score

I am at war and I am alone

And I take off before the horn’s blown

And I hear all the doors on the hinges

And now for some reason

I’m scared of all of them closing

Still I don’t know if I have what it takes

To be chosen