How Do I Know - Vashti Bunyan

How do I know that those mountains aren’t cardboard?

How do I know that the world is round?

Why should I know?

Just because you’ve told me

There’s molten rock underneath my ground

How do I know there’s a God in the sky

Looking down and hearing me?

Why should you say, I can’t love any man

Have his children and still be free?

Go on voting, striking and fighting

Go on searching, hiding and laughing

I can’t change you, I can’t even try

But let me live like I think I can

Then when it’s time for me to say goodbye

I’ll have lived just a part of man

Go on voting, striking and fighting

Go on searching, hiding and laughing

I can’t change you, I can’t even try

But let me live like I think I can

Then when it’s time for me to simply die

I’ll have lived just a part of man