Album: Taking One For The Team
Song-writers: Pierre Bouvier, Chuck Comeau
Length: 3:19
“Self-empowerment. It’s about knowing who you are and I think in life, you get a lot of opinions and people tell you what you should do or how you should live your life and this one was about saying: ‘I refuse to change who I am for anyone’.”
– Pierre Bouvier –
“It kind of states a lot of things about this whole record, because this record is about being yourself, being in a band and just feeling strong about it and feeling confident about it, so this song is kind of a part of all of this identity meaning of this record.”
– Jeff Stinco –
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
Stop being such a freak
Nobody wants you here!
(That’s what they said to me)
There’s something wrong with you
Why don’t you disappear?
(That’s what they said to me)
Why should we all be stereotypes?
Why don’t we all just stand up and fight?
In my blood
In my veins
In my heart
I know what’s right for me
So I refuse
To apologize for who I am
(And I refuse)
To ever let somebody say I can’t
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
So I refuse
To let the words you say get to me
And I refuse
To keep on suffering quietly
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
So I refuse
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
So I refuse
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
You’ll never make it far
You’re just a hopeless case
(That’s what they said to me)
How can I make it clear?
You’re just a big mistake
(That’s what they said to me)
You don’t control me
This is my life
When will you wake up
And open your eyes
In my blood
In my veins
In my heart
I know what’s right for me
So I refuse
To apologize for who I am
(And I refuse)
To ever let somebody say I can’t
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
So I refuse
To let the words you say get to me
And I refuse
To keep on suffering quietly
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
No matter what you think
You don’t decide my fate
I can do anything
No matter what you say
Cause
In my blood
In my veins
In my heart
I know what’s right for me
So I refuse
To apologize for who I am
(And I refuse)
To ever let somebody say I can’t
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
So I refuse
To let the words you say get to me
(And I refuse)
To keep on suffering quietly
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
I refuse, I refuse, I refuse
So I refuse
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
So I refuse
Whoa whoa