If I don't say anything it's wrong If I said it, it wouldn't come out right It's been keeping me up all night Half my life I've been told to shut up So how am I gonna open up? I wish you could just read my mind If I shed all of me would you run away? If I sugar coated what I had to say If poetry would make you stay I wish I was born Bob Dylan Had all the words to speak my feelings I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks And followed my heart Unafraid of the truth Even if I stood alone I didn't know how it was gonna go Even if the world was cold I'd take a deep breath And get it off my chest I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan They say either way you'll win If you're feeling it why you gotta hold it in? What is meant to be will be But all that wisdom doesn't help me now I'm scared and I gotta find out how to speak my mind Without metaphors and prose and rhyme And still make you mine I hope you know what I mean when I'm acting mean 'Cause I will see what I mean when I'm caught in between But I'm afraid the real you is eluding me I wish I was born Bob Dylan
Had all the words to speak my feelings I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks And followed my heart Unafraid of the truth Even if I stood alone I didn't know how it was gonna go Even if the world was cold I'd take a deep breath And get it off my chest I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan With you I'm ripped right open at the seams I'm not that tough Wish you could hear the song inside of me But it's not enough All the things I want to say to you Are written on my face I wish I was born Bob Dylan Had all the words to speak my feelings I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks And followed my heart Unafraid of the truth Even if I stood alone I didn't know how it was gonna go Even if the world was cold I'd take a deep breath And get it off my chest I wish I was born Bob Dylan Even if I stood alone Didn't know how it was gonna go Gotta get it off my chest And hope for the best I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan