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i thought i was smart
i thought i was right
i thought it better not to fight
i thought it was a virtue in always being cool

so it came time to fight
i thought “i’ll just step aside”
and that the time would prove you wrong
and that you… would be the fool

i don’t know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
it’s all a mystery…

oh, to fight is to defend
if it’s not now then tell me when would be the time
that you would stand up and be a man

for to lose i could accept
but to surrender i just wept and regretted this moment
oh that, i was the fool

i don’t now where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
it’s all a mystery…
and i don’t know how a man decides what’s right for his own life
it’s all a mystery…

‘cause i’m a man, not a boy
and there are things you can’t avoid
you have to face them when you’re not prepared to face them

if i could, i would
but you’re with him now, it’d do no good
i should’ve fought him but instead i let him…
i let him take it

i don’t know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
it’s all a mystery…
and i don’t know how a man decides what’s right for his own life
it’s all a mystery…