You Must Be Willing Lyrics

Lyric discussion by what111746 

Cover art for You Must Be Willing lyrics by Against Me!

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".