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If was released on August 15, 2025 by King Kozmo as a part of the album A Different Light

Song Details

AlbumA Different Light

Release DateAugust 15, 2025

LabelKing Kozmo

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM99

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

David Friedman

Piano

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Composer

David Friedman

Arranger

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

David Friedman

Producer

Lyrics

If you can keep your head when the world falls down

Stand tall in the storm, don't break, don't drown

Dream, but don't get lost in the dream you chase

Hold steady, hold strong, keep faith, keep pace

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you

But still make allowance for their doubting too

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

Or being lied about — don't deal in lies

Or being hated — don't give way to hating

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can keep your head when the world falls down

Stand tall in the storm, don't break, don't drown

Dream, but don't get lost in the dream you chase

Hold steady, hold strong, keep faith, keep pace

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master

If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can keep your head when the world falls down

Stand tall in the storm, don't break, don't drown

Dream, but don't get lost in the dream you chase

Hold steady, hold strong, keep faith, keep pace

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

If all men count with you, but none too much

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

If you can keep your head when the world falls down

Stand tall in the storm, don't break, don't drown

Dream, but don't get lost in the dream you chase

Hold steady, hold strong, keep faith, keep pace

Written by: Giuseppe Verdi, Rudyard Kipling, Tom Gilbert

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