The Girl With My Name

She enters every room a step ahead Wearing my perfume turning every head They see a girl who knows just who she is I see the one I still can't quite resist

They call it confidence A harmless kind of pride But they don't know what happens When I close the door at night

I never call her me I always call her she I keep that little distance So she can get to me Don't say I dream of being her That isn't what I mean I want the girl with my body The girl with my eyes The girl with my name Looking back at me

I know each freckle every secret scar I know how beautiful her bad days are She catches me undressing in the glass And gives me that slow smile I can't get past

You ask me where she finishes And where I might begin I only smile and whisper She looks better in my skin

I never call her me I always call her she I keep that little distance So she can get to me Don't say I dream of being her That isn't what I mean I want the girl with my body The girl with my eyes The girl with my name Looking back at me

If I say I'm beautiful The words fall flat and thin But when I whisper look at her I feel it under my skin So I lend her my name And set the two of us apart She may live inside my body But she moves inside my heart

I never call her me I always call her she Maybe that's the only way The feeling makes sense to me I don't just want to be her That isn't what I mean I want the girl with my body The girl with my eyes The girl with my name Still looking back at me

She knows my every secret She knows just what I like And when I softly say her name We both turn at the same time

I never call her me She'll always be The girl with my name