C D Em
If I don’t say anything it’s wrong
C D Em
if I said it, it wouldn’t come out right
C D Em
It’s been keeping me up all night
C D Em
Half my life I’ve been told to shut up
C D Em
so how am I gonna open up
C D Em
wish you could just read my mind
Pre-chorus:
C D Em
If I shared all of me would you run away
C D Em
if I sugar coated what I had to say
C D Em
in poetry would it make you stay
Chorus:
C D Em
I wish I was born Bob Dylan
C D Em
Had all the words to speak my feelings
C D
I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks
Em
and followed my heart
C
unafraid of the truth
D
even if I stood alone
C D Em
I didn’t know how it was gonna go
C D Em
even if the water was cold I’d take a deep breath
C D
and get it off my chest
Em
and hope for the best
Verse 2:
C D Em
They say either way you win
C D Em
if it’s mutual why hold it in
C D Em
and it’s not meant to be
C D Em
and you tell the truth it will set you free
C D Em
but all their wisdom doesn’t help me now
C D Em
I’m scared and I gotta find out
C
how to speak my mind
D Em
without metaphors and prose and rhymes
C
and still make you mine
Pre chorus 2:
C D Em
I hope you know what I mean when I’m acting mean
C D
cuz I don’t say what I mean when I’m caught in-between
Em
and I’m afraid
C D Em
the real you is eluding me
Bridge:
C D
And hope you will catch
Em
me when I fall
C D
and love me back
Em
when I show you my all
C
Fill in the blanks
D
if I’m not making sense
Em
be patient with me
Chorus:
D Am C G
I wish I was born Bob Dylan
D Em C G
Had all the words to speak my feelings
D Em C G
I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks
and followed my heart
D Em C
unafraid of the truth
D Em C
even if I stood alone
D Em C
I didn’t know how it was gonna go
D Em C
even if the water was cold I’d take a deep breath
D Em
and get it off my chest
C
and hope for the best
D Em
Even if I stood alone
C
didn’t know how it was gonna go
D Em
gotta get it off my chest
C
and hope for the best
D Em C
if I don’t say anything it’s wrong if I said it it wouldn’t come out right