What Makes It So? - David Crosby

They try to tell you

What you can and cannot do

Your place on the path

How much you get to know

And what makes it so?

How do they know?

How can it only be

One way?

And you

You don’t like it

You’ve already picked out your move

The road you’d like to ride

Just how deep in the groove

And what makes it so?

How do they know?

How can it only be

One way?

A man stands before you

Telling us all what his great leader said

(And I say)

Where is it written

And how many ways can it be read?

And what makes it so?

How do they know?

How can it only be

One way?

I think for myself

Probably keep it that way

At least for now

At least for today

And what makes it so?

How do they know?

How can it only be

One way?