Emily Bautista - My Kind of Queen
Who never felt constrained by someone else choices, like your future is not in your own hands? ‘My Kind of Queen’ speaks to that and is an invite to be fierce and speak your own truth. Can you relate? When is the last time you have rewritten the rules?
MY KIND OF QUEEN
No more the child. A woman stands here now.
Her future straight as a spear, she has no choice
No space for her, her heart or her voice
Cold and demanding duty is waiting
It walks beside me and there is no place to hide
No space for sanity, vanity or pride
I don’t know who I am yet
I don’t know who I might have been
But if that’s who I have to be
Then I will be own my kind of Queen
I don’t know how to do this
I don’t know what I could have seen
But if that’s how it has to be
Then I will be my own kind of Queen
Here is my promise, if I am to lead
I will not sigh or weep, I’ll keep my temper, advise and empathise
No fear will break me, no foe will succeed
I will protect my people, and look to their needs
Unselfish and evergreen, I will be their Queen
And if I fail and if I falter
Then I shall fail with courage and with grace
And if we have to run then we will run to a better place
I don’t know how to rule yet
Or how to make the fighting cease
But if I lead I’ll try to be
Fierce in war and fair in peace
And if I try to be the very best that I can be
Generous, just, sincere, undeterred
As she looks down from high above the Goddess Moon will see
A leader who cares, a leader who dares, whose voice is the voice to be heard
Who stands by her choice and her word.
Here is my promise if I am to rule
I’ll lead us to a future that’s attainable and sustainable.
Working together we’d finally see, what’s just beyond the horizon, new life peaceful and free and all this thanks to me, for I‘ll be their Queen.
Music by Gianluca Cucchiara
Lyrics by Andrew James Whelan
Produced by Giovanna Romagnoli and Gianluca Cucchiara for Vanara ltd
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