I will not give up my own self

I will not give up my own self
Just to be with you
I will not be glad just to do
What I'm told to do
I'm not meant to be your property
No, I belong I me
If I want to reach for the stars
You can't hold me back
I want to take chances
Far off from the beaten track
Don't force me to be what I can't be
I belong to me.....



If you try to tame me
I will not obey
I'd rather leave you alone
If you try to change me
I must break away
To be what I am on my own

I'm freezing, I'm burning
I live without compromise
I'm growing, I'm learning
I'm ready to pay the price
I know it's not easy to be free
But I belong to me

I hate to be burdened
With duties that I despise
You know I can't stand
To be watched by a thousand eyes
I flee from the crowd in agony
I just belong to me

If you want to keep me
Don't hold me so tight
I can't give my life for your love
If you want to break me
I'll not even fight
I'll just fly away like a dove

I'm here when you need me
I live and I die with you
I'll share all your troubles
I'll laugh and I'll cry with you
You can blame me and bless me
But you cannot possess me
'Cause I belong to me

I don't want to become obedient,
tamed and well mannered
I don't want to be modest,
popular and deceived
I am not your possession
I want to look down from a rope (?)
at the world
I want to go on the ice and see for myself
how long it will hold me
What is it to you what I risk?
I only belong to me!

If you want to lecture me
then you will force me
to escape the tiresome duty
If you want to convert me
I will break free and fly.
Like a bird into the light.
And if I want the stars,
then I will find myself a way to them
I will grow and learn
and will still be the person I am.
I want it all before I am lost.
Because I only belong to me.

I don't want to be pressured
with questions and wishes and
From head to feet be looked at by curious eyes
I get defensive
when I feel strange eyes on me because
I only belong to me
And if you want to be with me,
then don't tie me down
I won't give up my freedom
and if you want to tie me down
I will leave your nest and
dive like a bird into the ocean.
I am waiting for my friends and look for comfort.
I share the joy and I share the sadness
But don't demand my life that I can't give to you
because I only belong to me!