Gather 'round me, everybody
Gather 'round me, while I preach some
Feel a sermon coming on here
The topic will be sin
And that's what I'm agin'
If you wanna hear my story
Then settle back and just sit tight
While I start reviewing
The attitude of doing right
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween
You got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate my last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark,
What did they do, just when everything looked so dark?
Man, they said, we better
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween
No don't mess with mister inbetween
You got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
And have faith, or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive
E-lim-i-nate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with mister inbetween
No don't mess with mister inbetweenI think its selfish to want this as much as i do
I cant stop myself from driving on and making it through
Mom and dad understand things will work out in the end
But now i should go because time is something i can not bend
(Chorus)
I'm on my own it feels like the first time that i let you go
I'm on my own nothings gonna stop me i just thought you should know
21 still so young when will i really begin stop flailing start caring
getting up and fighting to win you cant be against me when will you
listen to me and open your eyes and see me for what i want to be
I'm on my own it feels like the first time that i let you go
I'm on my own nothings gonna stop me i wanted you to know that
i could have made it better if i'd tried
i would have made it better if i'd tried
LETS GO!
I'm on my own it feels like the first time that i let you go
I'm on my own nothings gonna stop me i just thought you should know