There was a Chinese restaurant where we would go when I was a kid And the paper placemat told me That being born in 1988 Meant that I was confident And prone to good fortune The year of the dragon It was all gonna happen And there was this French film that I saw once on a plane And the main character became my idol She had a way about her that made me believe Life should always be the play, not the recital Now I'm older than she was then And it's all so different When you don't know where else to go You go back to where you came from All is not lost in the belly of the beast Holding the past like a rope And it pulls me back to square one Never more scared but I never felt more free The memories cling to me like a wet bathing suit Kinda cold I wanna peel them off my body I cut my hair and I let all my anger grow I walked naked through a town that didn't want me Yeah I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine It's gonna be different this time When you don't know where else to go You go back to where you came from All is not lost in the belly of the beast Holding the past like a rope And it pulls me back to square one Never more scared but I never felt more free Leave it to me to be the master of my fate Till the brakes give out and no one's riding shotgun When you don't know where else to go You go back to where you came from All is not lost in the belly of the beast Holding the past like a rope And it pulls me back to square one Never more scared but I never felt more free