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.
10,000 Maniacs - Headstrong (1989) New Haven, CT (04:00)
10000Maniacs The Palace Theatre New Haven, Connecticut, USA December 5th, 1989 1. Trouble Me 2. City
Of Angels 3. Can't Ignore The Train 4. Cherry Tree 5. You Happy Puppet 6. Gun Shy 7. Poison In The
Well 8. Among The Americans 9. Dust Bowl 10. Eat For Two 11. Headstrong 12. A Campfire Song 13. Like
The Weather 14. Hey Jack Kerouac 15. What's The Matter Here? 16. The Tea Song 17. The Counting Song
18. My Sister Rose 19. The Lion's Share 20. The Painted Desert 21. Don't Talk 22. Hateful Hate ...