AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
THE HERO OF OUR OWN LIFE STORY
Released from prison by President Carter, Patty has the life-changing realization of why the jury condemned her...
...a compassionate insight into the flaws and frailties of human nature
Each of us is trapped in our own way
Held captive and forced to self-betray
We so desperately need to believe
That we’re always free to be
The hero of our own life story
You might excuse me for losing my way
After getting carried away
Or for the choices I made
With a gun to my head
What you can’t forgive is the implying
In what It means my not trying to leave
Because you still need to believe
That we’re always free to be
The hero of our own life story
We always need to believe
We might pick the lock with a pin
We can pry a window open
We would tunnel under the floor
Or we could just walk out the door
My real crime was to make
Twelve people imagine
They might not prevail
In their own private hell
How can they swallow
Their own moral confusion
Their own self-protective delusion
How could they abandon
Their only self-serving conclusion
That we’re always free to be
The hero of own life story
So they made me pay
To keep them in faith
That no matter the stakes
They would never hesitate to make
Their own bold and daring escape
We always need to believe
We might pick the lock with a pin
We can pry a window open
We would tunnel under the floor
Or we could just walk out the door
Now can you see how they used me
To keep their certainty clear
To beat back their own fear
To smother their shame
They tied me to a stake and set me aflame
All to hide and deny the terrible truth
That we’re - not - always free to be
The hero of our own life story
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