Femme

I wasn't looking for sexual validation
I was just looking for a bit of recognition
That the face I see in the mirror is the face you see too
That this is worth all the hard things we do

I know it's cliché'd and you don't want to hear it
I know that it's a dress and I could choose not to wear it
I should have cut my hair off when I knew I was queer
It would have made it easier on everyone here

It's not that I'm afraid or scared of gay panic
Or that it's the kind of style I can't really stomach
I love it on them, or her, or you
It's just that on me, it doesn't feel true

And it's a touch of community feels ill at ease
Because there are some amongst us
Who have long thought of femininity as a disease
But I like to think it's not that dark
I like to think that we've come so far
And it's a touch of the community thinks femininity is a disease
That has long made some amongst us feel ill at ease
But I like to think it's not that dark
I like to think that we've come so far

I like to think it's not that dark
I like to think that we've come so far
I like to think it's not that dark
I like to think that we've come so far
I like to think it's not that dark
I like to think that we've come so far

That time in the bar when they knew I was gay
How I wanted to reach across the counter and say
"How could you tell with all this pink?"
"What about me made you think that I'm that way too?"
"That you saw me and somehow in me recognised you?"