Growing up, it was just me and my mom against the world.
And all my sympathies were with her when I was a little girl
but now i've seen both my parents
play out the hands that they were delt
and as each year goes by,
I know more about how my father must have felt.
I just want you to understand
that I know what all the fighting was for,
and I just want you to understand that I'm not angry anymore.
i'm not angry anymore.
she taught me how to wage a cold war with quiet charm
but I just want to walk through my life unarmed.
To accept, and just get by like my father learned to do,
but without all the acceptance and getting by that got my father through
night falls like people into love
We generate our own light to compensate
for the lack of light from above.
Every time we fight a cold wind blows our way,
we can learn like the trees, how to bend,
how to sway and say
I, I think I understand
what all this fighting is for,
and baby, I just want you to understand
that I'm not angry anymore.
No, I'm not angry anymore.