I bought the Up in the Air soundtrack, which is quite good btw) today and heard this acoustic version of “Be Yourself” for the first time. I’ve always hated the super loud refrain in the LP version, so I was very happy to hear this. This is how the refrain is supposed to sound, dammit!
Click to listen:
The lyrics are slightly different than the LP Version:
Graham Nash – Be Yourself [1971 Demo] Lyrics
How does it feel
When life doesn’t seem real
And you’re floating about on your own
Life seems uncertain
So you draw the curtain
Pretending there’s nobody home
Don’t theorize
Look in your eyes
They can’t tell lies
Though you disguise what you see
Your reality
We needed a saviour
And by our behaviour
The ones that were worth it are gone
But song birds are talking
And runners are walking
A prodigal son’s coming home
Don’t theorize
Look in his eyes
And they won’t tell lies
But if he defies what you see
Here is the key
Be yourself
Why don’t you be yourself
Come on and be yourself
Why don’t you be…
He needed a tutor
So built a computer
And programmed himself not to see
The truth and the lying
The dead or the dying
There is only one way to be
So don’t theorize
Look in his eyes
Are they telling lies
The ones that you see on T.V.
So you want to be free
Be yourself
Why don’t you be yourself
Come on and be yourself
Why don’t you be yourself
Oh, be yourself
Come on and be yourself
Why don’t you be yourself
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