YOURSELF is a jazz-rock band featuring vocals, flute, guitar, and sometimes bass and drums.
Story behind the song
People are always ready to stoop to the level of War based on the silliest of reasons: the color of your skin,what music you listen to, what substances you choose to imbibe, what god you devise--there's plenty of room for us all!
Lyrics
So now it’s WAR!
Are you ready to cut me down,
Just because I have a song that’s different from your own?
Lock me up, or beat me down,
Till I’m afraid to speak…
It’s too damn dangerous out there
When people try to think!
You try to devastate me With your critical look,
Full of passages From what you call “a good book”.
It’s all you ever read,
So you know it Must be right—
It gives you leave To spread the grief
At what makes you uptight!
It’s very simple—I know he’ll get along fine,
If you go your way, And let me go mine!
You can’t find the power in your life
Except for what you take—
What nature didn’t create is Oh, so easy to fake!
All faced off against the fearsome Kids you worked so hard to raise;
All tied up in that nice neat little package
You slaved your soul to make!
But for all your polish And your bright shiny chrome,
You just can’t shake the feeling
That you’ve never been at home!
You find your answer here,
Then you find the New improved model there—
Change your beliefs as easy as you Dye your hair!
I’ve got a message, and it’s Just short of divine:
Concentrate on your own mess Before you mess with mine!
Your long nose and your long arm seem to
Always butt in here—
Whatever my private life, you feel obliged to
Interfere!
You think all your ills would be solved
If I’d just disappear –
If all the world could see What seems to you So clear!
But I’ve got news you should attend ,
So I’ll just clue you in:
People have done What they love to do
Ever since the world began !
You can knock them,
You can jail them,
But in the end you’ll see:
You can’t Smash a spirit that’s demanding
To be free!
See if you can maybe Read my lips this time –
Go live your
So-called life,
And leave me to mine!
