I stepped forward. I was supposed to present a speech to all these people? Why wasn't I aware of this before?!?
I take a deep breath. "I felt that the only way I could truly express myself, how I feel, and how this effects everybody, was in a song."
Temari smiles, Tsunade smirks, Sakura quirks her lips into a smile, Kankuro nods, and Gaara just looks at me with an unidentfiable emotion deep inside his eyes.
I take a shaky breath.
This song was about us.
The Shinobi.
The unsure genin.
Feeling as though you've been forgotten, that you're a failure, that you'll never grow up fast enough.
The ninja, innocence stolen away, praying that you have a second chance.
Knowing that you're broken. Knowing that there's so much more to life, something that you keep missing.
We were meant to live for so much more.
"Meant To Live"
Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's bent for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly
[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Dreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken
[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
A cheering started up somewhere deep in the crowd, growing quickly into an outstanding roar. We wanted more.
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life, yeah
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live
We wanted more. We were meant for more. More than this terrible war, then our hate, then this fruitless circle of violence. We didn't want our inheritance of war and bloodshed. We wanted something more.
The crowd quieted, and I began to sing once again.
Quietly, tremoltuosuly, I declared,
We were meant to live for so much more
But we've lost ourselves.
We were meant to live for so much more
But we've lost ourselves.
We were meant to live for so much more
But we've lost ourselves.
We were meant to live
Let's go find ourselves.
I backed away from the ledge, the cheering following me for a long, long time.
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