I wrote this song last week.
Sometimes I write songs because it's an elegant way to say something you can't really say. Sometimes the example a person is in your life is a gift, something that broadens your understanding of yourself as renewable, as someone who doesn't need to be what you have always been. It's hard not to be what people know you to be. It's hard to alter how you enhabit the way you are perceived. It might seem impossible not to be what you seem to someone else to be. It's even harder when you're old, but sometimes someone shows you it can be radically, well and completely done.
You can decide who you are and be that thing even if the world you are walking into will not immediately acknowledge you as yourself. From the perspective of not doing it, it looks impossible… perhaps only until you have seen it bravely and well done.
It's not always a revolutionary act to be yourself, unless of course it is.
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What if I stay up all night, never come in out of the cold? I'd be the only one left in the fight, direct result of never doing what I’m told.
Sit around a fire. Get a little high. Pick a couple songs I know.
Sometimes I try to be a man. Sometimes it makes me low. C’z what’s a man,? What’s a man? I've been trying every way I can. God bless you if you do, but I don't know.
Sit around a fire. Get a little bit high. Pick a couple songs we know.
A man says, whatchoo gonna do about it? A man who starts a revolution has to do without.
Knowing everythingll be all right. Having a safe place to go. Somewhere you can walk the streets at night, and never wonder if it's right to say hello.
Sit around a fire. Get a little high. Sing a couple songs we know.
The rest of it just repeats. And it doesn't matter if the message gets back to the person who inspired it. A song by the fire is as important as this all needs to be.
Keep each other safe and love each other. They'll keep growing up the whole time if you let them and it all helps.
