Big Girls Don't Cry

(album: The Dutchess - 2006)

The smell of your skin lingers on me now.
You're probably on your flight back to your home town.
I need some shelter of my own protection, baby,
To be with myself and center clarity, peace, serenity.

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you.
It's personal: myself and I.
We've got some straightening out to do.

And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,
But I've got to get a move on with my life.
It's time to be a big girl now.
And big girls don't cry,
Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry.

The path that I'm walking I must go alone.
I must take the baby steps 'til I'm full-grown, full-grown.
Fairytales don't always have a happy ending, do they?
And I foresee the dark ahead if I stay?

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you.
It's personal: myself and I.
We've got some straightening out to do.

And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,
But I've got to get a move on with my life.
It's time to be a big girl now.
And big girls don't cry.

Like the little school mate in the school yard
We'll play jacks and uno cards.
I'll be your best friend and you'll be my Valentine.
Yes, you can hold my hand if you want to
'Cause I want to hold yours too.
We'll be playmates and lovers and share our secret worlds.

But it's time for me to go home.
It's getting late and dark outside.
I need to be with myself and center clarity, peace, serenity.

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you.
It's personal: myself and I.
We've got some straightening out to do.

And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,
But I've got to get a move on with my life.
It's time to be a big girl now.
And big girls don't cry,
Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry.