Do it Anyway

Album: The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (2012)
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  • You might put your love and trust on the line
    It's risky, people love to tear that down
    Let 'em try
    Do it anyway
    Risk it anyway

    And if you're paralyzed by a voice in your head
    It's the standing still that should be scaring you instead
    Go on and
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway

    There will be times you might leap before you look
    There'll be times you'll like the cover and that's precisely why you'll love the book
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway

    Tell me what I said I'd never do
    Tell me what I said I'd never say
    Read me off a list of the things I used to not like but now I think are ok

    Sometimes it's not subjective: wrong and right
    Deep down you know it's downright wrong but you're invincible tonight
    So you
    Do it anyway
    It's done
    You did it

    Despite your grand attempts the chips are set to fall
    And all the stories you might weave cannot negotiate them all
    Do it anyway
    Be honest, anyway
    So tell me what I said I'd never do
    Tell me what I said I'd never say
    Read me off a list of the things I used to not like but now I think are OK
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah
    Whoa whoa whoa whoa

    It's gonna be so very hard to say
    And watch the trust and joy all drain from her innocent face
    But you must
    Do it anyway
    It sucks but
    Do it anyway

    Call it surrender but you know that that's a joke
    And the punchline is you were never actually in control
    But still, surrender anyway

    Tell me what you said you'd never do
    Tell me what you said you'd never say
    Read me off that list of things 'cause I used to not like you
    But now I think you're OK
    Yeah yeah yeah yeah
    Whoa whoa whoa whoa

    Everybody knows that you just gotta do it anyway

    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway
    Do it anyway

    'Cause you don't do nothing to avoid self punishment
    You won't do nothing
    You won't feel nothing
    Gotta
    Do it, do it, do it anyway
    Ah
    Do it anyway Writer/s: BEN FOLDS, BENJAMIN SCOTT FOLDS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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