If I don't say anything, it's wrong If I said it, it wouldn't come out right It's been keeping me up all night Half my life, I've been told to shut up So how am I gonna open up? Wish you could just read my mind If I said all of me, would you run away? If I shook a coat of what I had to say Poetry, would it make you stay? I wish I was born Bob Dylan Had all the words to speak my feelings I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks And followed my heart, unafraid of the truth Even if I stood alone I didn't know how it was gonna go Even if the water was cold I'd take a deep breath And get it off my chest I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan They say either way you'll win If you're feeling it, why you gotta hold it in? What is meant to be will be But only wisdom doesn't help me now I'm scared and I gotta find out How to speak my mind If our metaphors and rules and rhymes still make you mine I hope you know what I mean when I'm acting mean Cause I don't say what I mean when I'm caught in between And I'm afraid the real you is eluding me I wish I was born Bob Dylan Had all the words to speak my feelings I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks And followed my heart, unafraid of the truth Even if I stood alone I didn't know how it was gonna go Even if the water was cold I'd take a deep breath And get it off my chest I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan With you I'm ripped wide open at the seams I'm not that tough Cause you could hear the song inside of me But it's not enough And all the things I wanna say To you are written on my face I wish I was born Bob Dylan Had all the words to speak my feelings I wish I stood up like Rosa Parks And followed my heart, unafraid of the truth Even if I stood alone I didn't know how it was gonna go Even if the water was cold I'd take a deep breath And get it off my chest I wish I was born Bob Dylan I wish I was born Bob Dylan