There's More Than One Way

Now the Government has lost our trust
And the magnates who never agree
I'd give it all away if they would only see
There's more than one way to be all that you can be

Called a coward when I turned a cheek
But I won't fight for the life they seek
I want no part of their world if it is remade
By those proudly taking lives and waiting to get paid

Somewhere in a computer file
A statistic is all that I am
While on their chart and multicolored diagram
I may not have much but I'm happy who I am

So don't ever let your dreams escape
Or let anyone take them away
Don't measure them in terms of how much they may pay
Or you may be judged for the dreams that you betray


*07/04/1987
Copyright © 2004 JJ Johnson
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