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Joni Mitchell lyrics : "If"

If you can keep your head
While all about you
People are losing theirs and blaming you

If you can trust yourself
When everybody doubts you
And make allowance for their doubting too.


If you can wait
And not get tired of waiting

And when lied about
Stand tall
Don't deal in lies

And when hated
Don't give in to hating back
Don't need to look so good

Don't need to talk too wise.

If you can dream

And not make dreams your master
If you can think
And not make intellect your game

If you can meet
With triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same


If you can force your heart
And nerve and sinew

To serve you
After all of them are gone
And so hold on

When there is nothing in you
Nothing but the will
That's telling you to hold on!

Hold on!

If you can bear to hear

The truth you've spoken
Twisted and misconstrued
By some smug fool

Or watch your life''s work
Torn apart and broken down
And still stoop to build again

With worn out tools.

If you can draw a crowd

And keep your virtue
Or walk with Kings
And keep the common touch

If neither enemies nor loving friends
Can hurt you
If everybody counts with you

But none too much.

If you can fill the journey

Of a minute
With sixty seconds worth of wonder and delight
Then

The Earth is yours
And Everything that's in it
But more than that

I know
You'll be alright
You'll be alright.


Cause you've got the fight
You've got the insight

You've got the fight
You've got the insight

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