I’m not an important man,
I never claimed to know the way,
I don’t have answers for your life,
And I don’t know what I should say.

I don’t want to give opinions,
I don’t want to tell you what to do,
You have your road, I have mine,
And I don’t know what is best for you.

If you ask me what I think,
I might just turn away,
I’m not a prophet, I’m just a man,
With nothing smart to say.

You don’t need my opinion,
You don’t need to hear my words,
If I knew what I should say,
I’d be a museum curator,
Or the director of some factory.
You don’t need my opinion,
You don’t need advice from me,
I’m not an important man,
I’m just trying to be free.

I’ve made mistakes all my life,
I’ve learned a little, lost a lot,
But that doesn’t make me wise,
And it doesn’t mean I know what’s right.

Everybody has an answer,
Everybody knows the truth,
Everybody wants to teach you
How to live and what to choose.

But I don’t have all the answers,
And I don’t pretend I do,
Sometimes the smartest thing to say
Is, “I don’t know what to tell you.”

You don’t need my opinion,
You don’t need to hear my words,
If I knew what I should say,
I’d be a museum curator,
Or the director of some factory.
You don’t need my opinion,
You don’t need advice from me,
I’m not an important man,
I’m just trying to be free.

Maybe silence says enough,
Maybe I don’t need to know,
Maybe every road is yours,
And every choice is yours alone.

I don’t need a microphone
To tell the world what it should be,
I have enough to figure out
Just being me.

You don’t need my opinion,
You don’t need to hear my words,
If I knew what I should say,
I’d be a museum curator,
Or the director of some factory.
You don’t need my opinion,
You don’t need advice from me,
I’m not an important man,
I’m just trying to be free.