25 February 2004
When they push, when they pull, tell me can you hold on?
When they say you should change can you lift your head high and stay strong?
Will you give up, give in, when your heart's crying out that it's wrong?
Will you love you for you at the end of it all?
In life, there's gonna be times when you're feeling low
and in your mind insecurity seems to take control.
We start to look outside ourselves for acceptance and approval.
We keep forgettin' that the one thing we should know is
Don't be scared to fly alone, find a path that is your own
Love will open every door - it's in your hands, the world is yours
Don't hold back and always know, all the answers will unfold
What are you waiting for, spread your wings and soar
The boy who wonders is he good enough for them
Keeps tryin' to please 'em all but he just never seems to fit in
Then there's the girl who thinks she'll never ever be good enough for him
Keeps tryin' to change and that's a game she'll never win
In the mirror is where she comes face to face with her fears
Her own reflection, now foreign to her after all these years
All of her life she has tried to be something besides herself
Now time has passed and she's ended up someone else with regret
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending
Gotta let ourselves be
Don't be scared to fly alone, find a path that is your own
Love will open every door it's in your hands, the world is yours
Don't hold back and always know, all the answers will unfold
What are you waiting for, spread your wings and soar
Soar - Christina Aguilera
Sometimes good advice and inspiration come from the strangest places.
Nah, modern music, sappy though it may be is the popular poetry of our time.
Tis true, there is a lot of meaning here and is very deep.
Y'know, i think my life would have turned out very differently if i'd spent more time digging on Christina's lyrics, and less time with The Smiths...
Ah, too late to change now.
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