Sometimes I wish I sang a little better but I don't.   Might be a frog in my throat,    Or a lapse in my brain   Must be a wrong guitar chord in the refrain.      Sometimes I wish I sang a little better -   I sound so fine in my head   But when I hear that tape played back to me   It sounds like someone else entirely.      And whoever says you need to sing well   Has never heard Stephen Pastel   And it's sincerity that gets me   Just like Bernard Sumner on "Love Vigilantes"      Sometimes I wish I sang a little better   Maybe just a little more control   Maybe just a little sharper on the flat notes      Sometimes I wish I sang a little better than I do   Still I won't be deterred by you   When all my favourite singers are challenged vocally too      And whoever says you need to sing well   Has never heard Kleenex Girl Wonder   And it's sincerity that moves me   Just like Feargal Sharkey or The Legendary Jim Ruiz      And whoever says you need to sing well   Has never heard Stephen Pastel   And it's sincerity that moves me   Just like Calvin Johnson or Feargal Sharkey      And whoever says, "Let someone else sing"   Has no idea how much it hurts   Letting someone else destroy your words   I'll sing the things that I want in the way that I want to.