ON A DAY LIKE NO OTHER
YOU STEPPED OUT FROM DESTINY
TIME HAD NO ASSURANCE
YOU WOULD EVER REACH YOUR POTENTIAL
BUT YOU WERE RELEASED WITHOUT HIS APPROVAL
THE ONE THAT WOULD STEAL YOUR JOY
LOOKED A LOT LIKE YOU
ONLY SMALLER, TALLER
BLACKER, WHITER
OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
BUT THE GOOD PART CAME
WHEN ONE FINE DAY
THE SAME SMILE
THE SAME SKIN
THE SAME HAIR
AND THE SAME VISION WOULD APPEAR
SHE WOULD WITNESS THE MESS
AND TRY TO ADDRESS ALL SHE COULD
SHE EVEN TURNED DOWN THE TABLE OF WOOD
SHE WOULD CLEAN UP THE MESS FROM
THE NUMEROUS ABORTIONS
ONLY TO FIND THE TRUE BABE
WOULD NEVER HAVE LIGHT SHED UPON IT
IT WAS THE ESSENCE OF WHAT MISS ANNIE WAS
THE SUBLE STREHGTH
THAT WOULD DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE
FROM ONES WHO WOULD NOT
BE ABLE TO ORCHESTRATE
THE ENDING NO LESS THE BEGINNING
OF THE TRAGEDY OF HER LIFE
LISTEN TO THE WIND
IF SHE LETS US IN
THE WINDS WILL TELL US SO
OF THE DEBT TO SOCIETY SHE OWED
FOR NEVER TELLING US WHO
SHE WOULD BECOME
ONLY TO KNOW
SHE WAS GONE ONE DAY
THANK YOU MISS ANNIE
FOR DYING AND FOR US LEAVING BROKE
YOU STEPPED OUT FROM DESTINY
TIME HAD NO ASSURANCE
YOU WOULD EVER REACH YOUR POTENTIAL
BUT YOU WERE RELEASED WITHOUT HIS APPROVAL
THE ONE THAT WOULD STEAL YOUR JOY
LOOKED A LOT LIKE YOU
ONLY SMALLER, TALLER
BLACKER, WHITER
OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
BUT THE GOOD PART CAME
WHEN ONE FINE DAY
THE SAME SMILE
THE SAME SKIN
THE SAME HAIR
AND THE SAME VISION WOULD APPEAR
SHE WOULD WITNESS THE MESS
AND TRY TO ADDRESS ALL SHE COULD
SHE EVEN TURNED DOWN THE TABLE OF WOOD
SHE WOULD CLEAN UP THE MESS FROM
THE NUMEROUS ABORTIONS
ONLY TO FIND THE TRUE BABE
WOULD NEVER HAVE LIGHT SHED UPON IT
IT WAS THE ESSENCE OF WHAT MISS ANNIE WAS
THE SUBLE STREHGTH
THAT WOULD DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE
FROM ONES WHO WOULD NOT
BE ABLE TO ORCHESTRATE
THE ENDING NO LESS THE BEGINNING
OF THE TRAGEDY OF HER LIFE
LISTEN TO THE WIND
IF SHE LETS US IN
THE WINDS WILL TELL US SO
OF THE DEBT TO SOCIETY SHE OWED
FOR NEVER TELLING US WHO
SHE WOULD BECOME
ONLY TO KNOW
SHE WAS GONE ONE DAY
THANK YOU MISS ANNIE
FOR DYING AND FOR US LEAVING BROKE