Jessica Heine Never Signed Up Lyrics

He was the only child of immigrants from China a place he'd never been.
They worked as laborers, spent their best years toiling in a factory for him
But he was a poet deep inside.
They made it clear to him they would not stand for second best or ordinary things.
He'd have to work so hard to get the things in life about which they could only dream
He'd be a doctor or a judge.
I never signed up for that life.
I never said I'd live a dream I never dreamed myself
I never signed up for that life
Now did you think I wouldn't mind.
He stood beside himself and he wondered is there some way I can help them understand
He could not survive if he tried to live inside a life that someone else had planned
For he was a poet deep inside.
They screamed in anger "We know what is best!" and they thought that their hard love would bring him round.
He withdrew further deep into a world where he knew that he never would be found.
Where he was a poet deep inside.
I never signed up for that life.
I never said I'd live a dream I never dreamed myself
I never signed up for that life
Now did you think I wouldn't mind.
He disappeared one Tuesday morning never said goodbye just left them with a note.
They read it in anger, they disowned him for they never understood the words he wrote.
He wrote:
I never signed up for that life.
I never said I'd live a dream I never dreamed myself
I never signed up for that life
Now did you think I wouldn't mind.