What Right Have I Lyrics - Emilie Autumn

What right have I? 

You are not mine 

Nor will you ever be 

I need not try 

To read your sign 

You don't belong to me 

I should not care 

How you behave 

What difference does it make? 

Perhaps someday 

You will grow brave 

And from this sleep awake 

But when you do 

It will not then 

Be caused by what I say 

But by one who, 

Like other men, 

Holds you within her sway 

And as I claim 

No place within 

The life you choose to live 

I'll stay the same 

As I have been 

And all your faults forgive 

Perhaps I own 

The privileged place 

For worry I need not 

I may condone, 

Reprove with grace, 

And still remain unfraught 

With jealousies 

And petty cares 

And all that love demands 

So as you please 

I'll save my prayers 

And better use my hands 

But why all this? 

As I have said, 

It matters not to me 

What right have I? 

You are not mine 

Nor will you ever be.