Give Up Your Dreams (demo) (4:58)

How do you do what you want to do?
What privilege or umbrage inspires
Entitlement to one’s desires?
Why do you do want all the things you want?
What comment in what tender year
Shifted your drives into gear?

And if friendly audiences
Never thought that much of you before
Why would you think strangers
Would care any more?

How can you be what you want to be?
What sequence of events decides
Immodesty’s a point of pride?
How can you like all the things that you like?
Is your idée fixe itself the goal
Or that its attainment be known?

And it’s hard to deny
The futility of such inquiry
When you’ve spent all your life
fighting desire to give up your dreams

And if friendly audiences
Never thought that much of you before
Why would you think strangers
Would care any more?

How’d it come to pass that we’d cross our paths
In this sad excuse for a theater?
Well, I never saw myself here either
What will you do? What can you do?
Stick it out for your family and friends
Who aren’t as driven to their ends?

And it’s hard to deny
The futility of such inquiry
When you’ve spent all your life
fighting desire to give up your dreams

Give up your dreams
Before they give up on you
Give up while you still can claim
You got to choose
To give up your dreams

Give up your dreams