TGSF - TransGender San Francisco

For me, what is described in the song lyrics below is thankfully in the past. For too many others, however, it remains the painful present. My goal as the Education Co-Chair is to do as much as I possibly can to help others, through educational resources, put this behind them as well.

Freedom to Be Me
By Lisa Maren Stein
October 2007

 

Day after day I just want to be free

To become everything I was destined to be

Deep in my soul I just want to be me

To be truly myself for all the world to see

 

CHORUS

I'm so tired of hiding my genuine self away

I'm so tired of living dishonestly every day

I just want to believe there's a way

To live my life with a smile every day

In a world where I have the freedom

To be me

 

Let me be through with this dark masquerade

Let me truly be done with this morbid charade

Let me be rid of this phony disguise

And let everyone see only truth in my eyes

 

BRIDGE

Let me throw off this choking chain

Let me come inside from this drenching rain

Let me not hope for happiness in vain

 

CHORUS

I'm so tired of hiding my genuine self away

I'm so tired of living dishonestly every day

I just want to believe there's a way

To live my life with a smile every day

In a world where I have the freedom

To be me

 

I want to be unrestricted and free

To reveal and express my true identity

I want to see the true nature of me

Come alive and come forth for all the world to see

 

CHORUS

I'm so tired of hiding my genuine self away

I'm so tired of living dishonestly every day

I just want to believe there's a way

To live my life with a smile every day

In a world where I have the freedom

To be me