The Request Book

Bold (Set Your Sail)

If I were bold, I wonder now, would I

Be bold enough to let you navigate

And choose to where I point my good ship's bow?

Or bold enough to say "Stand back" because

I know for where I'll set my sail and all?

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I know those times come oft upon us all

When easily we'd take advice from those

Slick villains who'd advise us ill, you see,

When rightly we would do well to ignore

The voice of those who threaten us and those

Who whisper softly in our ears to tell

Us that it's better to give in because,

"Just look how hard it is to keep this up!"

**

I know those times come oft upon us all

When fighting back seems like a loss too great

And givng in is easier because

There's no-one there to stop you doing that.

And ending strife seems like the end of grief

And conflict, so why not just let it be?

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What else I know's that those ends that are chose

By someone other won't quite be the end.

For this would be allowing foe, not friend

To set your sail and ship you off to sea.