NO ONE’S GONNA TAKE THE MUSIC AWAY No one’s gonna take the music away from me No one’s ever gonna take the music away I still remember the symphony playing inside of me when I walked home from therapy and realized that I could leave the man who tried to take the music away from me I heard a symphony For three years he’d protest when I whistled hummed or sang He said there’s better ways to use my precious brain But the damned songs wrote their damned selves anyway Cause no one’s gonna take the music away from me No one’s ever gonna take the music away You can break my bones, You can wreck my home, You can rape my body, You can take my money, You can throw things at me But it’s written in my soul It’s given through me Broken or whole Cause no one’s gonna take the music away from me Even in death, I suspect There’s a whole lot of singing © Chelsea Coleman 2018