Katy Perry – Box Song Lyrics

About Katy Perry: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager. Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin. After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.

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Lyrics:

I was living in a small mind
With no lifeline
And no messages can reach me from the outside
When I looked out over the horizon
Didn’t notice the sun was setting or just rising  Then it hit me
Maybe bit me
Then I knew, quite a few would not go with me
I didn’t know exactly where I would be going
But I had to let this river in me flowing  What a ride
When you open your eyes
For the very first time
A real surprise  I started living outside of the box
Crossing over lines where I always used to stop
Living outside of the box
‘Cause I’m not gonna be anybody that I’m not
I always knew this day would come
When I got off my back, found some motivation
I’ve been living on the other side
Come hell or high water every moment I’m alive  I was living on a fault line
The fault was all mine
And this unstable ground found me down half the time
But I had enough
I had to get up
I had to shrug it all off ’cause it’s the same old stuff  Then it hit me
You won’t permit me
To be an individual
Just doesn’t fit me
But I decided that it’s going to be living
Yeah, I decided I’m escaping from your prison  What a high
When you open your mind for the very first time
A real surprise  I started living outside of the box
Crossing over lines where I always used to stop
Living outside of the box
‘Cause I’m not gonna be anybody that I’m not
I always knew this day would come
When I got off my back, found some motivation
I’ve been living on the other side
Come hell or high water every moment I’m alive  So long conformity
And ambiguality is a new priority
All it takes, for heaven sakes
Is to figure out the face and learn to seperate  I started living outside for the box
Taking my time when I always used to rush
Living outside of the box
‘Cause I’m not gonna be anybody that I’m not
I always knew this day would come
When I broke down the walls for my liberation
I’ve been living on the other side
Come hell or high water every moment I’m alive  Oh, living outside of the box
Oh, living outside of the box
Oh, living outside  Ha ha ha  I always knew this day would come
When I got off my back, found some motivation  Oh, living outside of the box
Of the box, of your life
Of everything that seems that nice