I must do this on my own              
I won’t let someone take my place            
If this is what I’m called to do today                        

I know I’ll have to close my heart            
Forget the past and look away          
And say today I did this on my own              

There’s a time for tenderness          
 A time for trust and innocence            
A time when love is all that someone sees                          

But there are greater things that call            
And hearts must steel to face them all            
And say today I did this on my own        
And no one else will ever see    
The tears I’ll shed    
What used to be      
The fairy tales we children played                
No thought of fear no place for hate                  

There will come a day I know                
When poisoned words no longer rule                
When hearts can soar                  
And dreamers show                
 The way                            

 And if that day I do not see              
 I’ll face the fate life brings to me    
And say to…day I did this on…my own…  
 On my own… on my own….                      

Own…on my own… on my…own                
And said I did this …on… my…own