Being Me - Abbey Lincoln

All along the way there were things to do Always some other someone I could be Other things to know, other ways to go To fly a spirit for the play to show

It wasn’t always easy learning to be me

Sometimes my hitting hard would disagree

Times I walked away other times I stay

To see the glamour of my life the play

Being me I dared to be myself alone

Sometimes I love the things they said

Some things were cold as stone it was lonely

Sometimes, sometimes it was mood-felt lights were brilliant

Sometimes, sometimes there was you being me, I laugh

So many things have changed and yet somehow

There were always be a stage, a song for me Hold the curtain open, It’s time to take a bow

Being me I laugh seeing now and then

So many things have changed and get some out

There will always be a stage, a song for me Hold the curtain open, It’s time to take a bow