Headstrong

(music: Natalie Merchant/words: Natalie Merchant)
 To your common sense firm arguments
 I won't listen to your voice of reason trying to change my mind.
 I mind my feelings and not your words.
 Didn't you notice I'm so headstrong even when I know I'm wrong?
 Take this to your heart and into your head now:
 before you waste your time, call a truce and call a draw.
 What's the use in mapping your views out in orderly form
 when it does nothing but confuse and anger me more?
 I mind my feelings and not your words.
 Didn't you notice I'm so headstrong.
 You're talking to a deaf stone wall.
 Take this to your heart and into your head now:
 the old wives' tale is true, I'll repeat it.
 All is fair in love and war, that's how the famous saying goes.
 Open up your eyes, see me for what I am:
 cast in iron, I won't break and I won't bend.
 Take this to your heart and into your head now:
 the old wives' tale is true, I'll repeat it.
 All is fair in love and war, that's how the famous saying goes.
 If I told you we were out to sea in a bottomless boat,
 you'd try anything to save us, you'd try anything to keep us afloat.
 And if we were living in a house afire,
 I don't believe that you could rush out and escape it and not rescue me.
 Take this to your heart and into your head now:
 the old wives' tale is true, I'll repeat it.
 All is fair in love and war, that's how the famous saying goes.
 Listen, I think they were talking to you.