Song Description

You can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to that. You can choose to be controlled by the outside world or you can take charge and take some responsibility.

Lyrics

Watching every heartache going by,
it?s never ending
Reliving every single petty riff
from years gone by
You say you wanna be yourself
and stop pretending
Aw, I wonder if you have the nerve to try

Whenever any bad news
stains the morning papers
And makes you wanna run away,
close up inside
Forget about the critics
and the paid opinion shapers
The bottom line is only you decide

CHORUS

Only you decide, will ya let it bring us down
Or turn the coin to see the other side?
With your heart as guide, make it anger or shame
Forgiveness or blame only you decide.

When melancholy gets to be
a quick and easy answer
And everywhere you look,
you only see the negative
And soon enough you feel depression
growing like a cancer
Ooh, and is that really where you want to live?

CHORUS

Only you decide, to walk away from pain
Or turn the coin to see the other side
With your heart as guide, make it loving or fears
Compassion or tears, only you decide.

Only you decide, don?t let it bring us down.
You never know what?s on the other side.
With your heart as guide, make it anger or shame
Forgiveness or blame, only you decide.

Copyright 2003 Daniel David Johnson and Tom Guernsey