Northern Lite - If lyrics
[Northern Lite - If lyrics]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when
All men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies
Or being hated, don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good
Nor talk too wise
If you can dream- and not
Make dreams your master
If you can think- and not
Make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the earth and
Everything that's in it
And- which is more- you'll be a man, my son!
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
If you can trust yourself when
All men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies
Or being hated, don't give way to hating
And yet don't look too good
Nor talk too wise
If you can dream- and not
Make dreams your master
If you can think- and not
Make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run
Yours is the earth and
Everything that's in it
And- which is more- you'll be a man, my son!