I Will Not Be Broken

Bonnie Raitt · Souls Alike [2005]

(Gordon Kennedy/Wayne Kirkpatrick/Tommy Sims)



That was then this is now

Found my way back here somehow

I knew you'd have to let me go

I told you once I told you so.



Take me down

You can hold me but you

Can't hold what's within

Pull me round

Push me to the limit

Maybe I may bend

But I know where I'm not going

I will not be broken

I will not be broken

I will not be.



Someone other than who I am

I will fight to make my stand

'Cause what is livin' if I can't live free

What is freedom if I can't be me.



Take me down

You can hold me but you

Can't hold what's within

Pull me round

Push me to the limit

Maybe I may bend

But I know where I'm not going

I will not be broken

I will not be broken.



I won't let you near it

I will let my spirit fly

Fly high

Oh, take me down.



Take me down

You can hold me but you

Can't hold what's within

Pull me round

Push me to the limit

Maybe I may bend

But we both know I'm not going.



I will not be broken

I will not be broken

I will not be broken

I will not be, no, no, baby, ooh...