Do It Anyway lyrics - Ben Folds Five

You might put your love and trust on the line

It's risky, people love to tear that down, let 'em try

Do it anyway

Risk it anyway

And if you're paralyzed by a voice in your head

It's the standing still that should be scaring you instead

Go on and do it anyway

Do it anyway

There'll be times you might leap before you look

There'll be times you'll like the cover and that's precisely why you'll love the book

Do it anyway

Do it anyway

Tell me what I said I'd never do

Tell me what I said I'd never say

Read me off a list of the things

I used to not like, but now I think are okay

(Ah, ah ah, ah ah ah)

Sometimes it's not subjective wrong and right

(Ah, ah ah, ah ah ah)

Deep down you know it's downright wrong but you're invincible tonight

So you do it anyway

It's done, you did it

(Ah, ah ah, ah ah ah)

Despite your grand attempts the chips are set to fall

(Ah, ah ah, ah ah ah)

And all the stories you might weave cannot negotiate them all

Do it anyway

Be honest anyway

(Ah ah ah)

So tell me what I said I'd never do

Tell me what I said I'd never say

(Ah ah ah)

Read me off a list of the things

I used to not like but now I think are o-

Kay!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Whoa whoa whoa whoa

It's gonna be so very hard to say

And watch the trust and joy all drain from her innocent face

But you must do it anyway

It sucks but do it anyway

(Ah, ah)

Call it surrender but you know that that's a joke

(Ah, ah)

And the punchline is you were actually never in control, but still

Surrender anyway

(Ah)

Tell me what you said you'd never do

(What you said you'd never)

Tell me what you said you'd never say

(Do, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

Read me off that list of things 'cause I used to not like you

Now I think you're o-

Kay!

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Whoa whoa whoa whoa

Everybody knows that you just gotta do it anyway

Do it anyway, do it anyway

Do it anyway, do it anyway

Do it anyway, do it anyway

Do it anyway, do it anyway

'Cause you don't do nothing to avoid self punishment

(Do it anyway, do it anyway)

You won't do nothing, you won't feel nothing gotta

(Do it anyway, do it anyway)

Do it, do it, do it anyway

(Do it anyway, do it anyway)

Ah, do it anyway

(Do it anyway, do it anyway)