I thought I was smart
I thought I was right
I thought it better not to fight
I thought there 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
where the sunbeams end
and the starlights begin
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
I was the fool
where the sunbeams end
and the starlights begin
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
I'd do no good
I should have fought him
but instead I let him
I let him take you
Where the sunbeams end
and the starlights begin
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
Oh to fight is to defend
If it's not now
then tell me when
would be the time
that you'd stand up
and be a man
'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
And if I could
I would
but you're with him now
I'd do no good
I should have fought him
but instead I let him take you