Middle-Class Mystery

Verse

She’s the girl who swore she’d never play the game

Writing “I don’t care” right next to her own name

Trapped inside a mind that’s spinning out of gear

With a list of all the flaws she’s learned to fear

Skin a little pale, and a height a little short

She finds her only comfort in a library’s court

Losing herself in the pages and the ink

While the world moves faster than she wants to think.

Chorus

She’s a middle-class mystery in a hand-me-down sweater

Searching for a truth that’ll make her feel better

But the walls she built high, meant to keep her inside

Are starting to crumble, with nowhere to hide.

Verse

He’s the boy from the family where the money grows tall

Varsity freshman, the king of the ball

The kind of easy grace that doesn’t have to try

With a spark of something gold in the corner of his eye

One look was a hammer to her carefully built stone

She’s barely holding onto the dignity she’s known

But when he looked back, time began to freeze

And her heavy defenses fell down to their knees.

Bridge

Is he too good to be true? She’s measuring the weight

Between a broken heart and a twist of lucky fate

Sticking to her low, or reaching for the high?

She’s staring at the limit of her own internal sky

The girl who swore off dating is falling through the air

Finding out that maybe, there’s a reason to be there.

Chorus

She’s a middle-class mystery in a hand-me-down sweater

Searching for a truth that’ll make her feel better

But the walls she built high, meant to keep her inside

Are starting to crumble, with nowhere to hide.

Outro

Maybe she should believe in "meant to be"

Maybe there’s a version that she’s finally gonna see

Beyond the ink, beyond the fear

The chance is finally here.