I thought I was smart, I thought I was right

I thought it better not to fight

I thought there was a virtue in always being cool

So it came time to fight, I thought I'll just step aside

And that the time would prove you wrong

And that you would be the fool



I don't know where the sunbeams end and that the starlights begin

It's all a mystery



Oh, to fight is to defend

If it's not now then tell me when would be the time

That you would stand up and be a man

For to lose I could accept

But to surrender I just wept

And regretted this moment, oh that I, I was the fool



I don't know where the sunbeams end and that the starlights begin

It's all a mystery

And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life

It's all a mystery



‘Cause I'm a man, not a boy

And there are things you can't avoid

You have to face them when you're not prepared to face them

If I could, I would, but you're with him

I'd do no good

I should have fought him but instead I let him, I let him take you



I don't know where the sunbeams end and that the starlights begin

It's all a mystery

And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life

It's all a mystery