Be yourself (1971)
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1. How does it feel when life doesn't seem real,
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and
you're floating about on your own ?
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Your life is uncertain, so you
draw the curtain,
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pretending
there's nobody home.
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Don't theorize, look in your
eyes,
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they
can't tell lies though you disguise what you see,
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the
mirror is free.
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2. We once had a saviour, but by our behavior
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the
one that was worth it is gone.
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Song birds are talking and
runners are walking,
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a
prodigal son's coming home.
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Don't theorize, look in his
eyes,
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they
won't tell lies, but if he defies what you see,
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he'll
give you a key.
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Be yourself, be yourself !
Be yourself, be yourself !
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3. We needed a tutor, so built a computer,
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and
programmed ourselves not to see.
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The truth and the lying, the
dead and the dying,
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a
silent majority.
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Don't theorize, look in their
eyes,
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are
they telling lies, the ones that they learn on T.V.,
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what
a way to be free.
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Be yourself, be yourself !
Free yourself, free yourself !
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Then you can free yourself, see
yourself !
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Then you can see yourself,
free yourself !
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Why don’t you free yourself,
see yourself ...
(orig.
= capo 3rd) (Graham Nash)