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The Dane songs about disabilities (106* d) Lyr Add: I AM WHAT I AM (Mark Dignam) 10 Mar 03


Try an Irish singer/songwriter called Mark Dignam - he did an album a few years back entitled Poetry & Songs From the Wheel featuring a song called I AM WHAT I AM:

In awe at distance and height
I feel sometime a Life long ago
I took for granted flight
Perhaps the why my Spirit whispers
It can do what my body says it shan't
and my more disabling fear cries I can't

I am what I am because you say I am

You give me a name
'cause I can't do what you do
But I don't label you
'cause you can't sing like me
I don't label you
'cause you can't love like me
and I don't label you
'cause you can never
ever be like me

I'm a prisoner
in your able bodied world
Oh! Yes I am

Take a look at me
I'm a special child
Take a good look at me
I'm a special child
A special child, given
alternative routes of travel
A special child, given
special things to do
A special child sent
to special school

I'm a prisoner
in your able bodied world
Oh! Yes I am

In awe at distance and height
I feel sometime a Life long ago
I took for granted flight
Perhaps the why my Spirit whispers
It can do what my body says it shan't
and my more disabling fear cries I can't

I am what I am because you say I am



Hope these lyrics might help you
Jacob Svendsen


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