If I sat here and did as I was told
Would you still decide the same, would you stay?
Cause I am trying so hard to be bold.
If I had always been as good as gold
Would I still have a heavy price to pay
If we had done as we were told?
If we behaved, would you still leave the fold
Had neither of us gone so far away
Would I still be here trying to be bold?
For I wish that your heart had not been sold
Then there wouldn’t be all this disarray
If only you had done as you were told.
I wish I wasn’t me, not in your mould
I wish I wasn’t filled with dread and decay
I just wish I didn’t have to be bold
But I do and am and hopes you hold
Yet you don’t care, you keep us at bay
My body shivers and my blood runs cold
And here I am, struggling, being bold.