You don't need to be afraid   Those hesitations of the past.   Youire best selling paperback,   The ugly duckling has the last laugh.   Everybody's got a fighting chance.      'Cause I've spent years looking back.   Got me nowhere, got me nowhere.   While the wind caught your hair,   Yes the wind caught your hair      Do do do do do do....      Darling no more empty words,   They're just hurtful and misleading.   Can't you see that?   Darling no more empty words,   They're just hurtful and misleaiding.   Can't you see that?      So you threw it all away.   But you're worth the whole damn lot of them,   But this morning something changed.   I saw my life stretched over plains,   And everybody had a fighting chance.      While I spent years looking back.   Got me nowhere, got me nowhere.   While the wind caught your hair,   Yes the wind caught your hair.      Do do do do do do do do do do do do      Darling no more empty words,   They're just hurtful and misleading.   Can't you see that?   Darling no more empty words,   They're just hurtful and misleading.   Can't you see that?      Do do do do....      Someday I'll rise up again, and try to make something in my life.   It's not too late.   Darling no more empty words,   They're just hurtful and misleading.   Can't you see that?