Differently - Thelma Houston

People all around me

Trying to change their lives

And do the things they’d like to do

Trying to make it different

So as not to be the same

As me and you

Young folks and old alike

Searching for the center

Of their circling life

Some trying to make me different

Like the day time difference

With the lack of light

But I take cream in my coffee

Sugar, sometimes honey

In my tea

But that’s not all of me

I smile when I’m happy

And the tears that come with pain

Just flow instinctively

So am I different

When I try and do things differently?

People standing on my head

Trying to feel as tall

As they would like to be

But failing ever constant

To begin to see

The human side of me

And what gives me the right

To demand you lived your life

The way I’d like to see

The only different thing about us

Is that different people

Do things differently

As for me, I take cream in my coffee

Sugar, sometimes honey

In my tea

But that’s not all of me

Oh, I smile when I’m happy

And the tears that come with pain

Just flow instinctively

So am I different

When I try and do things differently?

I take cream in my coffee

Sugar, sometimes honey

In my tea

But that’s not all

Oh, I just smile when I’m happy

And the tears that come with pain

Just flow instinctively

So am I different

When I try and do things differently?