From Cover to Cover

I am a young boy
With one path ahead
And that is to leave here
with six strings in my hand

You're from a small town
And people like you don't leave small towns
And people like you won't escape here
And people like you never leave here
Or so they keep saying

You'll never be anything you wanna be
You should know better, know better
You'll never be anything you wanna be
You should know better
Know better

Blank books will hold
Tales not yet told
Scratch words in stone
I'm the one, I'm the one
The only one to get this story told

A little older now
Still the same path in my head
A roadblock far behind
But a new one lies ahead

You're just a small fry
Sharing the pond with the big guys
There's simply no room for a new guy
Simply no room in the big time
Or so they keep saying

You'll never be anything you wanna be
You should know better, know better
You'll never be anything you wanna be
You should know better
Know better

Blank books will hold
Tales not yet told
Scratch words in stone
I'm the one, I'm the one
The only one to get this story told
To get this story told

Black ink has sunk between the lines
Each step has been recorded
One day this story of my life
will hold the life I wanted
I can be anything I wanna be
I will be anything I wanna be
One day this story of my life
Will hold the life I wanted

I'm still on my path
This road is neverending
But I saw a sign
The reflection of my life

They had their hands up
Seas upon seas of their hands up
Singing the words that I wrote for them
That was the moment I realised

You can be anything you wanna be
Go get it, go get it
You can be anything you wanna be
Go get it, go get it

Blank books will hold
Tales not yet told
Scratch words in stone
I'm the one, I'm the one
The only one to get this story told

(Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate;
our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you
We are all meant to shine, as children do
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others)

And I am living to write the end
And I am living to write the end
And I am living to write the end
And I am living to write the end
And I am living to write the end
(And I am living to write the end)