You excused me from the war
I wasn’t the soldier you were looking for
I ran to Hollywood to become a queen
To join the ranks in the silver screen
In search of my roman holiday
When you saw my name up in lights
You must have thought I gave up the fight
But I could never move on
I knew where I belonged
And it haunted me every day
The name they gave me wasn’t mine
But it felt real to me in the knick of time
I could have left you forever
But I came back to give you a letter
The one that said “I’ll make it okay”
You can’t be a starlet without a soul
You can’t watch them destroy the world
I won’t leave behind what was lost
Can we get this back and at what cost
That’s the price I’m willing to pay
It’s not that I left you to burn
But I wasn’t any help before I learned
That the real truth of fame
Is about staking your claim
And I’ve never been the one to walk away
