The Pony I Want to Be

The Pony I Want to Be is the eighth song of season five of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and the third (main part) and fifth (reprise) of six songs featured in the eighteenth episode Crusaders of the Lost Mark. This song marks Diamond Tiara's first solo.

Production
Amy Keating Rogers' inspiration for this song was "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2.

Lyrics

 * [Diamond Tiara]
 * If I'm a diamond
 * Then why do I feel so rough?
 * I'm as strong as a stone
 * Even that's not enough


 * There's something jagged in me
 * And I've made such mistakes
 * I thought that diamonds were hard
 * Though I feel I could break


 * Would you believe
 * That I've always wished I could be somepony else?
 * Yet I can't see
 * What I need to do to be the pony I want to be


 * I've been told my whole life
 * What to do, what to say
 * Nopony showed me that
 * There might be some better way


 * And now I feel like I'm lost
 * I don't know what to do
 * The ground is sinking away
 * I'm about to fall through


 * Would you believe
 * That I've always wished I could be somepony else?
 * Yet I can't see
 * What I need to do to be the pony I want to be


 * To be the pony I want to be

Reprise

 * [Diamond Tiara]
 * We'll build a playground
 * For all of us to enjoy
 * So full of games
 * There's enough for each girl and boy


 * I want to help and do
 * Everything that I can
 * I'm here to show you a change
 * Listen up, here's the plan

Spoken: Bring it in! That's right, keep it coming! Hey there, you with the amazing strength. Can you help them move that merry-go-round across the lawn? Thank you so much! And you with the super teeth, we need you to help with that teeter-totter. You got it! That's the spirit!


 * There's so much I can do
 * To help everypony else
 * I see the light that shines in me
 * I know I can be my better self


 * I can free the past
 * 'Cause now the future's bright for me
 * My cutie mark has set me free
 * To do what's right and be the pony I want to be


 * And be the pony I want to be!