Be yourself (1971)    (video)

 

    G - C - G - C (2x)

 

       G                                       D

1. How does it feel when life doesn't seem real,

                        F                                 G       - C

    and you're floating about on your own ?

              G                            D

    Your life is uncertain, so you draw the curtain,

          F                                    G

    pretending there's nobody home.

 

                     D                          F

    Don't theorize, look in your eyes,

                           G                          Em

    they can't tell lies though you disguise what you see,

A                        D     - D7

    the mirror is free.

 

            G                                  D

2. We once had a saviour, but by our behavior

            F                                   G       - C

    the one that was worth it is gone.

      G                                       D

    Song birds are talking and runners are walking,

          F                                G

    a prodigal son's coming home.

 

                     D                       F

    Don't theorize, look in his eyes,

                            G                     Em

    they won't tell lies, but if he defies what you see,

A                            D      - D7

    he'll give you a key.

     G         Am   D         D7    G         Am  D          D7

    Be yourself, be yourself ! Be yourself, be yourself !

 

              G                         D

3. We needed a tutor, so built a computer,

              F                                            G      - C

    and programmed ourselves not to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

             G                                   D

    The truth and the lying, the dead and the dying,

        F                       - G

    a silent majority.

 

                     D                         F

    Don't theorize, look in their eyes,

                              G                                 Em

    are they telling lies, the ones that they learn on T.V.,

A                                D     - D7

    what a way to be free.

     G         Am   D         D7       G         Am    D           D7

    Be yourself, be yourself ! Free yourself, free yourself !

                             G         Am    D           D7

    Then you can free yourself, see yourself !

                             G         Am    D           D7

    Then you can see yourself, free yourself !

                              G          Am   D           D7

    Why don’t you free yourself, see yourself ...

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Graham Nash)