If you can keep your head
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While all about you
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People are losing theirs and blaming you
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If you can trust yourself
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When everybody doubts you
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And make allowance for their doubting too.
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If you can wait
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And not get tired of waiting
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And when lied about
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Stand tall
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Don't deal in lies
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And when hated
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Don't give in to hating back
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Don't need to look so good
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Don't need to talk too wise.
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If you can dream
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And not make dreams your master
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If you can think
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And not make intellect your game
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If you can meet
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With triumph and disaster
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And treat those two imposters just the same
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If you can force your heart
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And nerve and sinew
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To serve you
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After all of them are gone
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And so hold on
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When there is nothing in you
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Nothing but the will
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That's telling you to hold on!
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Hold on!
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If you can bear to hear
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The truth you've spoken
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Twisted and misconstrued
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By some smug fool
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Or watch your life's work
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Torn apart and broken down
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And still stoop to build again
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With worn out tools.
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If you can draw a crowd
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And keep your virtue
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Or walk with Kings
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And keep the common touch
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If neither enemies nor loving friends
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Can hurt you
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If everybody counts with you
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But none too much.
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If you can fill the journey
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Of a minute
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With sixty seconds worth of wonder and delight
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Then
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The Earth is yours
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And Everything that's in it
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But more than that
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I know
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You'll be alright
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You'll be alright.
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Cause you've got the fight
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You've got the insight
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You've got the fight
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You've got the insight
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If
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| Joni Mitchell |
