My Own Destiny

My world it moves so fast today

The past it seems so far away

And life squeezes so tight that I can’t breathe

And every time I’ve tried to be

What someone has thought of me

So caught up I wasn’t able to achieve

But deep in my heart the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind to define my own destiny

I look at my environment

And wonder where the fire went

What happened to everything we used to be

I hear so many cry for help

Searching outside of themselves

Now I know that his strength is within me but

Deep in my heart the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind to define my own destiny

But deep in my heart the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind to define my own destiny

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill