Interpret:

Emilie Autumn

Album:

Your Sugar Sits Untouched

What right have I?
You are not mine
Nor will you ever be


I need not try
To read your sign
You don’t belong to me


I should not care
How you behave
What difference does it make?


Perhaps someday
You will grow brave
And from this sleep awake


But when you do
It will not then
Be caused by what I say


But by one who,
Like other men,
Holds you within her sway


And as I claim
No place within
The life you choose to live


I’ll stay the same
As I have been
And all your faults forgive


Perhaps I own
The privileged place
For worry I need not


I may condone,
Reprove with grace,
And still remain unfraught


With jealousies
And petty cares
And all that love demands


So as you please
I’ll save my prayers
And better use my hands


But why all this?
As I have said,
It matters not to me


What right have I?
You are not mine
Nor will you ever be