Posing (feat. Noel Pointer)

I sat for a portrait when I was young

Instructed to smile and look pretty

But I made believing was biting my tongue

In a blue velvet dress and a kitty

Before I was twenty, I mastered style

With fellows I was a sweet chander

The woman they knew in satin and low

Was still a regretful pretender

Posing, I was only posing

Withdrawing, withholding

Not knowing how I lied

Searching, little girl under wing

Not sure and not showing

The woman deep inside

I lived as a matress, and what I do

Was hide within rose, unrevealing

Unhearing is offer of love I knew

That acting of stage isn't feeling

Posing, I was only posing

Withdrawing, withholding

Not knowing how I lied

Searching, little girl under wing

Not sure and not showing

The woman deep inside