Lyrics:

[Verse 1]

Baby if you don't stand for something

How can you ever stand at all?

Baby if you're built on sand

You'll be swept back by the fall

[Refrain]

Baby if you don't stand for something

How could you ever hope to hold the weight of everything you hold?

Maybe if you built your house on sand

You could burrow the deeper

Maybe it would cave on you alone

[Chorus]

I swear, I did, I tried

I swear, I did

Thousand times to let it lie

Thousand times to let it lie

I swear, I did, I tried

I swear, I did

Thousand times to let it lie

Thousand times to let it lie

[Refrain]

Baby if you don't stand for something

How could you ever hope to hold the weight of everything you hold?

Maybe if you show them all your hand

You could nod in the creases

Or maybe you could take it back and fold

[Verse 2]

You said it was out in the aether

Each thought that you said you could feed her

She said she was nothing but eager

Then you said

She said that you couldn't believe her

Each thought that you said you could feed her

She said it was all just to lead her then

You said, you said, you said, you said, you said, you—

[Chorus]

Swear, I did, I tried

I swear, I did

Thousand times to let it lie

Thousand times to let it lie

I swear, I did, I tried

I swear, I did

Thousand times to let it lie

Thousand times to let it lie

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Swear, I did, I tried

I swear, I did

Thousand times to let it lie

Thousand times to let it lie

I swear, I did, I tried

I swear, I did

Thousand times to let it lie

Thousand times to let it lie

[Outro]

I heard that you weren't sure (I swear, I did, I tried)

And I called it off again (I swear, I did, I tried)

And I heard that you weren't sure (I swear, I did, I tried)

And I called it off again