I Guess it’s Royalty

There's a hollow feeling when I see my shadow

and the clock is ticking

and I feel so trapped in here

I'll get out even if I gotta climb out my window

for beyond these walls lies a road

to what I love so dear

and though it makes it hard now to

know, know

know, know

that when it comes to tomorrow

alls' touch and go, go

oh, no

I never get the easy way

and now I'm living on Queens

about to be thrown right under machine

because I was a girl outside

or can I survive

woman revived

like a butterfly so free

but now I'm living on queens

I guess it’s royalty..

up in a castle of broken dreams

I be

I be…

When the moon is burning in my eyes

I refuse to

say I give up

and shut out the light

not matter how blue

for if I did

I'd bleed the lullaby

like a tied noose

and I be up

and I be wry

until I can fly

truth ..

on a broom

and though it makes it hard now to go, go

down on this road

oh, when it comes to tomorrow

those lights will glow, glow

and in the know

and that is why

that's why I stay ..

and now I'm living on Queens

about to be thrown right under machine

because I was a girl outside

or can I survive

woman revived

like a butterfly so free

but now I'm living on queens

I guess it’s royalty..

up in a castle of broken dreams

I be

I be ..

Oooh .. (bridge)

I guess it's royalty

• S.R. Ashcraft 2020