Selkie Set me free from my wild ways Help me make a home I'm weary of this restlessness Floating aimless as sea foam She unrolled herself like a scroll as easy to read as she was to see She hoped she could entice him to steal the skin that sets her free Set me free from wondering I'm old enough to know I can not see what the future holds but it's clearly time to go The man took her pelt the selkie took his hand just as nervous as any bride over the threshold, wife and man

Set me free is all I asked
and I will ask no more
I'll bear your band of gold
and not miss the pelt I wore
She set out to keep his house
and tried to earn her keep
If only they could laugh together
She'd forget the nights she'd weep

Set me free from my failure here
I've already stayed too long
I still don't know what I'm doing
but I'm doing it all wrong
She tried to learn his ways
and do as a good wife does
Good enough is good enough
and better than she was

Set me free from this roof of yours
The walls are closing in
I can't breathe beneath their weight
I have to have my skin
His house she'd kept and cleaned
and tried to call her home
but it fast became a steel trap
when she felt the need to roam

Set me free from that look of yours
that says I ask too much
I want to feel at home in my own skin
and all I feel is your touch
She haunted their home as if in afterlife
what remains after remains are cast at sea
And tried to tell him thank you
when all she thought was "Set me free!"

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