Headstrong Lyrics - 10,000 Maniacs

To your common sense firm arguments 

I won't listen to your voice of reason, trying to change my mind 

I mind my feelings and not your words, didn't you notice 

I'm so headstrong even when I know I'm wrong? 

Take this to your heart and into your head now 

Before you waste your time, call a truce and call a draw 

What's the use in mapping your views out in orderly form 

When it does nothing but confuse and anger me more? 

I mind my feelings and not your words, didn't you notice 

I'm so headstrong? You're talking to a deaf stone wall 

Take this to your heart and into your head now 

The old wives' tale is true, I'll repeat it 

'All is fair in love and war', that's how the famous saying goes 

Open up your eyes, see me for what I am 

Cast in iron, I won't break and I won't bend 

Take this to your heart and into your head now 

The old wives' tale is true, I'll repeat it 

'All is fair in love and war', that's how the famous saying goes 

If I told you we were out to sea in a bottomless boat 

You'd try anything to save us, you'd try anything to keep us afloat 

And if we were living in a house afire, I don't believe 

That you could rush out and escape it and not rescue me 

Take this to your heart and into your head now 

The old wives' tale is true, I'll repeat it 

'All is fair in love and war', that's how the famous saying goes 

Listen, I think they were talking to you