WILD TO BE BORN

I am a mind
Close confined in the shape 
Of an ape.
I am a heart
Torn apart by the need
To be freed.
I am a dream
That may seem quite insane
Or just vain.
I am a power
Now my hour is at hand
Here I stand.

CHORUS
Open the skies, cut loose the ties, watch as I rise to the dawn,
Destiny's child, flawed and defiled, rampant and wild--
Wild to be born.

This was my world
I lay curled in its deep
Sound asleep.
This was my home
With its dome of a sky 
Once so high.
This was my cage
For an age while I learned
And it burned
This was my cell
Just a shell grown too old
Now to hold.
CHORUS

See from the stars
How the scars I have made
Start to fade.
See from the height
how the blight of my toil
Leaves the soil
See how the rain
Soothes the pain of the earth
With new birth
See how I fly
Say goodbye to the past
Free at last

CHORUS