• New filk: True to Yourself

    From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 11 19:51:37 2021
    Title: True to Yourself
    ttto: Wicked Girls by Seanan McGuire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQx7iF-yOc
    (also influenced by Save Yourselves! by Bob Kanefsky - xeno 136)

    Who you are, really? Do you know? Do you really like you?
    Do you try to be who you were, though it's someone you outgrew?
    Be true to yourself, 'cause you're all that you've got
    The others you counted on have all forgot
    That you are immutable, even through all of your changes
    And self is your primary facet and one of the strangest

    Who is it trying to make you do things you don't want to?
    Is it for your own good, or is it just to affront you?
    And it harm no one else, you just do as you wilt
    Obey them or not, you need never have guilt
    Be true to yourself, even if you are false to accusers
    A mindless and soulless identity's only for losers

    (Chorus:)
    You can be humble if that's what you want
    You can be upright and you can be blunt
    Do not let anyone say it's affront
    For you to be true to yourself
    Some people say, though I cannot agree,
    You must be on top if you want to be free
    For otherwise people will make you to be
    (A) thrall who cannot be yourself

    Do not get lost in the depths of the mind that defines you
    Think of the future and not of the past that confined you
    Do what you want to and be who you are
    Be unoriginal or be bizarre
    It's all up to you and whatever you're comfortable with
    Are you like the Jedi, or maybe you're more like the Sith

    Are you a man or a mouse or a Muppet or godly?
    Do people look up to you, down at you, maybe just oddly?
    Do you really care if you have their respect?
    Do things just for show or do them for effect
    It's up to you whether you pay due attention to bounds
    But you are the choices you make, and I say that's profound

    (chorus)

    (bridge)
    You are a poet, and you do your taxes quite ably
    And while at SCA, you always respond to "Please save me"
    Restore antique cars and computer repair
    A mundane at work and a royal at faire
    And the rules that you live by are complex, not clear
    So don't be afraid if you change year to year

    (chorus)

    You must be you, not what someone else seeks
    And true to yourself and ignore those critiques
    From small minded people who can't stand that you
    Are better than they who are scared of taboos
    You can be bold and can follow your dream
    Or you can be timid if you're apt to scream
    That you're fragile and can't leave the shelf
    So be soft or hard, naive or on guard
    And whatever you do be yourself
    In the end, you must live with yourself


    My lyrics copyright 2021 by Arthur Tansky. License granted for
    non-commercial, non-political archiving and performance as long as:
    1. copyright notice is maintained, and
    2. no money changes hands.

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