Your eyes they tie me down so hard
I'll never learn to put up a guard
So keep my love, my candle bright

Learn me hard, oh learn me right

This ain't no sham

I am what I am

Though I may speak some tongue of old

Or even spit out some holy word
I have no strength from which to speak
When you send me down and see I'm weak


Well you run and scream, you will dance with me
We'll fulfill our dreams and we'll be free

And we will be who we are and they'll heal our scars
Sadness will be far away


So as we walked through fields of green
It was the fairest sun I'd never seen
And i was broke, I was on my knees

You said, "yes" as I said, "please"

This ain't no sham

I am what I am
I'll leave no tide for a cynic's mind


We will run and scream, you'll dance with me
Fulfill our dreams and we'll be free
We will be who we are, and we'll heal our scars

Sadness will be far away

Do not let my fickle flesh go to waste

As it keeps my heart and soul in it's place
And I will love with urgency but not with haste