Expectations Lyrics

ODESSA;
Indeed, it's unfair
The way we are chained to what is expected from us

MARIA;
Either deprived from our lust or not giving enough
Oh those fools

LILLIAN;
"The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another."

MARIA & ODESSA;
Why is it so that we can't be ourselves in here?
Remember to smile and nod
Sit and stay and try to please - "Good girl"
The key, the one we are thinking of...
Why is it so that we can't be ourselves in here?
Remember to smile and nod
Thinking of that key, and each confirming...
We are making the prison real

MARIA;
Often labelled, told what to do
Expectations forced upon you
Play according to someone else's rules on their tune

ODESSA & MARIA;
Either friend or foe in a duel
Maybe saint, perhaps a sinner too
Nymph washed up ashore
Or simply a Madonna or a whore

ODESSA, MARIA & CHOIR
We are what we choose to be
Or what we were assigned to be
Eventually what we agree
We are what we choose to be
We're neither nor Madonna or whore,
Your room decor,
Yet always excluded from your party

LILLIAN & CHOIR;
Anything but free
It is dangerous
Indeed, if we try to make it independently
Alternatively
Running out from there, do you see?
Out there, without fear as ourselves, simply as "me"