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Intro

I've been an ace girl

 Offering much, grumbling low

 And I gave all, all that was asked of me

 When order was slow and vision was unrelenting

I never stopped long enough

 To swim against the tides of old

 And I was single-minded too much

 To look toward this new true north

So now

Permission to be

 Permission to slow

 And do the only things that matter to me

 The freedom to flow

 To where genuine flows

 And do the only things that matter to me

 And sure, I've had my fun

 Played with my roles

 With time for a break hard-won

 But then after a while

 So much done by rote

 No longer by inspiration

I've never stopped long enough

 To see whose was this blind ambition

 And I was not sanctioned to stop

 And realize whose was this old mission

So now

Permission to be

 Permission to slow

 And do the only things that matter to me

 The freedom to flow

 To where genuine flows

 And do the only things that matter to me

 With this space by the dropping of weights

 This license to obey

 With this time really wait

So now

Permission to be

 Permission to slow

 And do the only things that matter to me

 The freedom to flow

 To where genuine flows

 And do the only things that matter to me

The simple things that matter to me

The simple things that matter to me?