Cut Loose

Lying on the couch, tongue in my mouth
Trying to make sense of the stuff coming out
Tell me Kim, when did you know?
This journey began with a TV show
'Natural World', The Wife and Lodger
The National Treasure Sir David Attenborough

You cut me loose, you set me free
From the cocoon, the butterfly's free
Into the breeze

Beings just being, doing what they do
Sowing the seeds of a deeper truth
Work's working out
But am I really truly me?
Life's a puzzle and it's solutions I seek
Why I feel out-of-control every day of the week?
Why I can't stop dreaming of Major Tim Peake?

You cut me loose, you set me free
From the cocoon, the butterfly's free
Into the breeze

Thinking out loud of my past as a man
Wondering why I am who I am
Out in the world, not behind a screen
Made of other people's fears and other people's dreams

You cut me loose, you set me free
From the cocoon, the butterfly's free
Into the breeze

There's hard wood underneath
Got to strip this cheap veneer
Feeling like a woman
Though I'll never have a smear

I'm a member of his flock
Professor Brian Cox
The miracles of science embodied in a man
No ultimate creator, life in our hands
Not determined by our genes or controlled by the past
Social conventions or body parts

Understanding the world has so much to give
But does science tell me how to live?