Quitters Never Win

I've waited long enough and I've been putting it all off
 It's time I got myself going again
 I've made enough excuses to last 'til the end of time
 I've got to move forward with my plans
 I tell myself that I am not cut out for this
 I don't like anything that's happening now
 But when I think of losing everything I've done so far
 I know I've got to make it work somehow
 What good is a friend if you can't look him in the eye?
 What good is honesty if it feels like a lie?
 What good is a dream if you never even try?
 I thought that I was free and that I left that guy behind
 I wanted to believe that someday I'd reach the sky
 And if I don't press on then I'll watch the new me die
 And the sadder self survive
 This isn't as easy as they make it look on TV
 I'd never have guessed it was so hard
 And maybe you can hear it in the strain of my voice
 The perils of it caught me off guard
 But when you know that burning deep inside of you
 Is not something so easily ignored
 You get back on that horse no matter how many times you fall
 'Cause it's better than everything you've done before
 What good is a friend if you can't look him in the eye?
 What good is honesty if it feels like a lie?
 What good is a dream if you never even try?
 I thought that I was free and that I left that guy behind
 I wanted to believe that someday I'd reach the sky
 And if I don't press on then I'll watch the new me die
 And the sadder self survive
 My life is chronicled in lapses of writer's block
 Opening a window to let my feelings be mocked
 You ask me why I put myself through this, to you I say
 If you've ever chased a dream you know I can have it no other way
 This is me today