Coming of Age

Keep your body turning blue.
Love is something you only lose,
until some change in the night
you don't know how, but it finds
everything you never knew
you wanted and gives you another
chance at making yourself
something greater than the sum
of all the things your mother said
would do you in, again and again.

Now, I'm coming of age.
After a few trips to a place where
no one knows how to be without
pills and therapists, you never know
what you're missing til you do with
everything, I think you'll find.

And, it's better now that I'm alive.
Wanted to take so many pills
I'd wake up in 1955, but I find
there's nothing quite like this place.

Now, I'm coming of age.
And the money makes the world different.
I don't forget where you signed
away a soul I never knew I owned.
It's better this way especially today
singing along with Etta James.
At last, at last.