[Verse 1]

I sat for a portrait when I was young

Instructed to smile and look pretty

But I made believing was biting my tongue

In a blue velvet dress and a kitty

[Verse 2]

Before I was twenty, I mastered style

With fellows I was a sweet chander

The woman they knew in satin and low

Was still a regretful pretender

[Chorus]

Posing, I was only posing

Withdrawing, withholding

Not knowing how I lied

Searching, little girl under wing

Not sure and not showing

The woman deep inside

[Verse 3]

I lived as a matress, and what I do

Was hide within rose, unrevealing

Unhearing is offer of love I knew

That acting of stage isn't feeling

[Chorus]

Posing, I was only posing

Withdrawing, withholding

Not knowing how I lied

Searching, little girl under wing

Not sure and not showing

The woman deep inside