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You Must Be Willing Lyrics
Let there be a volume that cannot be denied
Let there be an emotion that you cannot fake
With our goals one day met, let us know a feeling of great accomplishment
Let them know hatred, fear, and war
Let there be a peace for us all
With our goals one day met, let us know a feeling of great accomplishment
With our failures complete, let us learn to survive
Your body will know if it's not the right way to go
Just listen closely to your heart and follow
You must be willing to abandon it all
You must be willing to starve
Let us challenge the wait for a day of reckoning
Let us deny shame and guilt
Let us know with absolute certainty that we were fools to ever second guess ourselves
Let us know a feeling of invincibility, as real as our fragile bones
There's a truth to be learned, I'm sure of it, just like I know there is nothing at all
Your body will know if it's not the right way to go
Just listen closely to your heart and follow
You must be willing to abandon it all
You must be willing to starve
Let there be an emotion that you cannot fake
With our goals one day met, let us know a feeling of great accomplishment
Let them know hatred, fear, and war
Let there be a peace for us all
With our goals one day met, let us know a feeling of great accomplishment
With our failures complete, let us learn to survive
Just listen closely to your heart and follow
You must be willing to abandon it all
You must be willing to starve
Let us deny shame and guilt
Let us know with absolute certainty that we were fools to ever second guess ourselves
Let us know a feeling of invincibility, as real as our fragile bones
There's a truth to be learned, I'm sure of it, just like I know there is nothing at all
Just listen closely to your heart and follow
You must be willing to abandon it all
You must be willing to starve
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this deserves much more than being a b side, though as a record thrash unreal and this go just great together on their own.
Why was this not released on new wave? It's an amazing song.
i agree this should have been on the album instead of animal
To me this song seems about as obvous as can be without screaming "I'm transgender!" I mean the chorus and this other verse c'mon..
Your body will know if it's not the right way to go Just listen closely to your heart and follow You must be willing to abandon it all You must be willing to starve
The chorus is talking about transition, I feel like it's her questioning whether or not its the right decision. Last line of the chorus basically says "you must be willing to make sacrifices in life, (sometimes difficult sacrifices) in order to get what youre looking for"
This part is a whole other story though.. Let us challenge the wait for a day of reckoning Let us deny shame and guilt Let us know with absolute certainty that we were fools to ever second guess ourselves... There's a truth to be learned, I'm sure of it, just like I know there is nothing at all
To me, this seems like the closest thing to where Laura is directly talking about "coming to terms with herself". Especially that line "let us know with absolute certainty that we were fools to ever second guess ourselves".