Temptations

    30 Sep 2010

    Punchline, “Exactly”

    I wanted to post this song yesterday, but the file size is just barely too large. Here are the lyrics:

    “I am awake
    Finally unafraid
    My dues are paid
    Gone are the days I displayed

    No rhyme because good times could go too quickly
    No reason pleased only by love
    No understanding of this human species
    But where I was
    Begged a why with no because

    Now I’m exactly what I used to be afraid I’d become
    And I’m exactly where I used to be afraid I’d belong

    I feel like I reflect as if I’ve entered yesteryear
    When just yesterday I appeared to be
    Somebody with no fears
    Of ever growing up
    I loved being stuck
    Sometimes I wish I was there

    No rhyme because good times could go too quickly
    No reason pleased only by love
    No understanding of this human species
    But where I was
    Begged a why with no because

    Now I’m exactly what I used to be afraid I’d become
    And I’m exactly where I used to be afraid I’d belong

    Life’s not over
    It’s finally mine to own
    My fears of the fall are gone
    I had no idea
    Still just me now
    Anticipation of the worst was simply wrong

    Yeah I was afraid
    I was afraid I’d become just like them
    Now just the fear of growing up and becoming that
    It almost killed me

    ‘Cause I had some plans when I was a kid
    I made some promises to myself
    Promises I began to feel I couldn’t deliver on as I grew older

    But you know what?
    looking back
    I love that hopeful kid
    Enough to prove to him
    That nothing can take away that hope
    nothing can take away his vision
    And just because my world is dead
    I came to fight to that noble end
    Gonna keep my eyes wide,
    walk outside
    stay myself inside

    And I’m exactly what I used to be afraid I’d become (And I belong)
    And I’m exactly where I used to be afraid I’d belong (And I belong)

    And I’m exactly what I used to be afraid I’d become (And I belong)
    And I’m exactly where I used to be afraid I’d belong (And I belong)”