I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by,
always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don鈥檛 want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things I have done.
I don鈥檛 want to keep on a closet shelf
a lot of secrets about myself
and fool myself as I come and go
into thinking no one else will ever know
the kind of person I really am,
I don鈥檛 want to dress up myself in sham.
I want to go out with my head erect
I want to deserve all men鈥檚 respect;
but here in the struggle for fame and wealth
I want to be able to like myself.
I don鈥檛 want to look at myself and know that
I am bluster and bluff and empty show.
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