Perhaps I'll never show this world all I could be


I just can't sing to any man the song he wants to hear
And I know that some won't like me


Others try to be my friend
But I'm all of me, and that's all that I am




Chorus:
And if life is for the living


Then why can't men be real

'Stead of hidin' in their costumes

Forgettin' how to feel, forgettin' how to feel

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We still live in a time when manners cover what is real

There's a basic fact of life that the times cannot conceal
That if some are masqueraders


Others live in their facade
But I'm what I am



I cannot be what I am not



Chorus



I may be too honest and offend those who pretend

I don't claim I'm always right, that I'm ev'rybody's friend
Perhaps for them it's easier to be what they are not

But I'm what I am, and I just can't play that part



Chorus