Just Trying To Be

by Jethro Tull

From the album: Living in the Past

Track 12 of 21 on Living in the Past (1972).

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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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More from Living in the Past

  1. Song For Jeffrey
  2. Love Story
  3. Christmas Song
  4. Living In The Past
  5. Driving Song
  6. Bouree
  7. Sweet Dream
  8. Singing All Day
  9. Teacher
  10. Witches Promise
  11. Inside
  12. Just Trying To Be
  13. By Kind Permission Of
  14. Dharma For One
  15. Wond'ring Again
  16. Locomotive Breath
  17. Life Is A Long Song
  18. Up The 'Pool
  19. Dr. Bogenbroom
  20. From Later
  21. Nursie