A Girl in a Coat

I thought I was lookin’ for a definition

I thought I wanted a name

Define the world

I can’t do

Not sitting here listening to a bunch of teenage yo-bos

Define the world

Travel the seven seas

Learn all there is to know

Define the world

Is that what I had said?

Looking out

Into an endless night sky

I realize how small and unimportant we are

We are like the stars

That twinkle ever so brightly

Very unique, but very similar

And so far

Who am I to define the world?

Sitting in the back of a greyhound bus

My winter coat pulled tight

Since the heat ain’t workin’ right

I look around me at the people  here with me

Do they know we they are going?

Where have they came from?

What’s their story?

I’m nothing but a girl in a coat to them

Is that all I am?

Is that all I will be?

Is that all I can say?

I want something more…

I want to be able to say I mean something

I want to have an effect on a little girl somewhere

Just like Pete Townshend has had on me

I want to wake up

Know that I’m wanted awake

That my life changed something

Changed someone

Just because I’m me…

Looking out the window

My hand  finds my Who pin by habit

Somewhere out there-

I look at the darken houses we drive by

-Is a girl

Maybe across the oceans

Maybe twenty feet from this shoddy road

There is a girl

(or boy for that matter)

Just like me

Curled up in bed

With a whippet pressed against their chest

Thinking about something much larger

Than they could possible fathom

Is that what I’m meant to be

Or am I just the ever simple dreamer

What am I besides a girl in a coat?

I’ve done some amazing things

I’ve seen things people could only dream

I’ve been places

I’ve done that

Though I’m young-

And very much criticized for that-

I have a feeling I’m going to wonder into something I may regret

Some puddle are like lakes after all

But what am I besides a girl in a coat?