Jennifer Nettles - The Awakening lyrics

Gather yourself, up 'til now there's been no clue The awakening will be swift and harsh and rude And it won't be what you know and it won't be what you'd expect And it will carry with it the force of fear-inspiring wreck This keeps me up all night, makes me pa** the day in bed And it's caused me such grief, it's been months since I've bled But I will do what is right, I will do what's expected No I won't be chastised and I won't be rejected (Chorus) But I will wait for you to come around And I will wait for you to change your mind And I will give you your one last chance over and over a thousand times I wanted to be your shelter, I wanted to be your home I wanted to be your reason and have that reason made known So no one would know my weakness, no one would hear what I'm thinking I am the biggest coward; they call the woman of the hour Doing eighty miles an hour, I roll the window down And with the freedom heavy on the air, I felt that I would drown And everything is different, and though freedom had its price A poor man's Joan of Arc, through the ashes still I rise (Chorus) Cause I did wait for you to come around And I did wait for you to change your mind And I did give you your one last chance over and over a thousand times And I will live out of love and I will act out of fairness And I will be the richness that lies beneath the surface of awareness