Baggage

Years ago you took my hand... two strangers in a stranger land
 With you I escaped this world, and played my role as just your girl
 Once or twice upon that time I thought that I saw love in your eyes
 Your soft singing in my ears fed my passion, calmed my fears
 Now it's all turned bittersweet, I just can't be your fantasy
 You only love what you control, have to cast me in your mold
 You hold so tight I cannot breathe, with paranoid jealousy
 Now I think your love has too many strings attached
 And it feels like baggage, in an old freight car
 Sitting on a siding, never going far
 Baggage just weighs me down
 It's all just baggage, a heavy load, ball and chain around my soul
 And it has no place now
 Was it just my desperate need to feel someone loving me
 That drew me to your face, and lured me into your embrace
 In the quiet, in the dark, urgent kisses, lovers' sparks
 Burning hot, burning fast, fire so hot it couldn't last
 You gave me a will to live, I gave you all I had to give
 You used it up through all these years,
 'til all that's left are bitter tears
 Now it's all just baggage, in an old freight car
 Sitting on a siding, never going far
 Baggage just slows me down
 It's all just baggage, a heavy load,
 it's wrapped itself around my soul
 Well it has no place now
 Well maybe there was once real love between us
 Or maybe it's all been just wasted time
 Well maybe time can soften all these jagged edges
 Or maybe I'll just leave this heavy load behind
 Years ago you took my hand... two strangers in a stranger land