Pride and Prejudice

[Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] I prize the wit that wanders wide With nothing but my will as guide A dowry shall not buy my grace Nor bind me to their rank and place [Verse 2] At some grand ball I meet a man And judge him poorly as I can His prejudice and distant view It stirs disdain more than he knew [Pre-Chorus I see contempt behind his eyes A fact he fails to recognize He makes his mind before I'm known And writes me off by what is shown [Chorus] My pride, your bias stay the same A mist where neither takes the blame Behind the words we dare not say We miss the truth inside this play [Verse 3] I take each gossip that is said To prove the thoughts within my head And weave each hint of guarded scorn To feed the views that I have formed [Verse 4] You plead your case with measured air Yet place yourself too high to care I will not yield to your pretense Nor heed your tone of insolence [Instrumental Solo] [Bridge] His acts lay bare what I denied Through reckless choice I took a side My logic seemed so well refined Yet blind resentment steered my mind [Pre-Chorus] I deemed my narrow judgment right And veiled his merit from my sight The harshness I believed his own Was but a seed that I had sown [Chorus] My pride and your bias must fall For we have both misread it all Beneath the words we used for spite We could not read the other right [Outro] We reached no grand enlightened state Nor yielded all to change or fate Yet through the wreck of each disguise We see at last with tempered eyes [Instrumental Ending] [End]