Just Trying to Be

by Jethro Tull

From the album: Benefit

Track 13 of 14 on Benefit (1970).

Duration: 1:37

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Lyrics for Just Trying to Be

There was a time when you were so young and walked in their way. They made you feel they loved you all-seeing they say. You're going wrong if their game you don't play And that the song I sing will lead you astray. Unfeeling, feel lonely rejection, Unknowing, know you're going wrong. And they can't see that we're just trying to be, And not what we seem, And even now believe that it's not real and only a dream.

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  3. Alive and Well and Living In
  4. Son
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  8. Inside
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  10. Sossity; You're a Woman
  11. Singing All Day
  12. The Witch's Promise
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