It Starts With Me
Empowering Change: It Starts Within
Lyrics
Take a step back!
Expressing a need to step back, possibly to gain perspective or reassess a situation.
How can this be?
Questioning the current state of affairs or circumstances.
So much begging pleadin' with no on listenin'
Highlighting frustration with ineffective communication or pleading without being heard.
Take a breath now and think of what this really means!
Encouraging a pause to reflect on the true implications of a situation.
This is my understandin'!
Asserting a personal understanding or realization.
That the life I lead does not belong to me!
Stating that the speaker's life is not solely their own, suggesting a broader connection or responsibility.
It starts with me (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
Reiterating that the responsibility or change begins with the speaker.
It starts with me (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
-It starts with me (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
-It starts with me (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
-In a world where doing what's right
Describing a world where moral actions have been marginalized or obscured.
Has been pushed from the light
Noting the relegation of righteous deeds to the shadows or hidden places.
And forced underground
Emphasizing the suppression and forced concealment of morally upright actions.
Into back alleys, and places abandoned
Pointing to specific locations like back alleys and abandoned places as symbolic of moral neglect.
What choice do we have?
Posing a rhetorical question about the available choices in such a world.
Tell me! What choice do we have?
Repeating the question, possibly emphasizing the limited options in the described environment.
What choice do I have?!
Expressing a sense of helplessness and inevitability, leading to a decision to take action.
What choice do I have?!
-But to force my own hand!
Declaring a necessity to take matters into one's own hands in the face of perceived injustice.
Each human being, it doesn't matter whether he's a politician, or a business man or a
Quoting an individual emphasizing the shared responsibility of all, regardless of social status, to address global suffering and confusion.
Just and ordinary person like me, in the street
-We should all be, as a human being to realize the enormous
-Suffering, misery, confusion there is in the world
-And it's our responsibility to change all that.
-Each human being, it doesn't matter whether he's a politician or a businessman or a
-Just an ordinary person like me, in the street
-We should all be as a human being to realize the enormous
-Suffering, misery, confusion, there is in the world
-And it's our responsibility to change all that.
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