I’ve always loved the way Brian Wilson and Tony Asher start each verse of God Only Knows with a line that is the opposite of the rest of the song (“I may not always love you,” “If you should ever leave me my life will still go on believe me”) and I appropriate a bit of that lyrical technique here. This is a song about fearlessness that begins and ends with the things that scare me most.
I’m afraid of losing you
I’m afraid to lose me too
I’m afraid to hurt the people I love
But I’m not afraid of anything else
I’m not afraid of crazy people
Hateful, angry, violent people
Powerful people or the people who crave it
People who want to blow the world up to save it
I’m not afraid
I’m not afraid to hear the truth
Tell me anything you want to
Tell me how I drive you nuts
Tell me why you hate my guts
I’m not afraid to lay with you
To work, or fight, or play with you
I’m not afraid of unhappy endings
Or starting all over again
I’m not afraid
I’m afraid of losing you
I’m afraid to lose me too
I’m afraid to hurt the people I love
But I’m not afraid of anything else
Words & Music by Mike Power 