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
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