I thought I was smart I thought I was right I thought it better not to fight I thought there was a virtue In always being cool So when it came time to fight I thought: I'll just step aside And that the time would prove you wrong And that you were the fool I don't know where the sunbeams end Or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery Oh, to fight is to defend If it's not now then tell me when Would be the time that you would Stand up and be a man For, to lose, I could accept But to surrender I just wept And regretted this moment Oh, and that I was the fool I don't know where the sunbeams end Or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery And I don't know how a man decides What's right for his own life, it's all a mystery 'Cause I'm a man, not a boy And there are things you can't avoid You have to face them When you're not prepared to face them If I could, I would But you're with him now, it'd do no good I should have fought him but instead I let him, let him take it I don't know where the sunbeams end Or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery And I don't know how a man decides What's right for his own life, it's all a mystery I don't know where the sunbeams end Or the starlight begins, it's all a mystery And I don't know how a man decides What's right for his own life, it's all a mystery Mystery