Running around in circles   Always trying to please you   I just wanted you to see   My life had meaning and   I was doing something real   I tried explaining   But it fell upon deaf ears   So many years have passed, and you   You don’t know who I am   I’m still caught up in that phase   Did I really throw my life away   How can you look me in the eye   And say you’re proud   When you know it’s a lie   15 years   Do you know how they were spent   So far from wasted   But you just don’t get it   Face to face   Without a thing to say   What’s the point when it won’t ever change   Time and time again   I blame myself   Never good enough   I was never good enough for you   But now I know who I am   Even though you never cared   I’m better off just standing on my own