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He was down on the floor with his lips to a glass |
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Said he dreamed of a future that won't come to pass |
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That he once strived to excel in a world so vast |
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But why run a race when it's rig and he's fixed in last |
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Then he mused all of life is a joke and he laughed |
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That it is what it is and he's thankful for all that he has |
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I said well let me just pose one question and ask |
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If you just want what you have, then why are are you sad |
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If you want to fight |
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Then why are you running |
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If everything is fine for you |
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Why are you stumbling |
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So silent |
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She was tripping on something that was laced in her tea |
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And she was high as a kite when she said she could see |
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Said we in the land of the free but no freedom grows |
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And if we in a brave new world where'd the brave all go |
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I said, hell if I know |
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Then she told me that the problem is society |
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Everybody crippled by anxiety |
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No one is the person that they try to be |
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Then she said, what we need are a few with a view that can bring a change through |
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That we need less talk and more do |
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So I said to her, what about you |
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If you want to fight |
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Then why are you running |
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If everything is fine for you |
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Why are you stumbling |
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So silent |
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I was listening to someone give a speech |
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Something 'bout the knowledge of enlightenment he reached |
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And as my eyes glazed over in my seat |
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He approached and he asked if he could challenge my beliefs |
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I said by all means have at it |
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Then he talked about the suffering and source of bad habits |
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How the emptying of mind is the challenge |
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And withdrawing from the world is the cure to all sadness |
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I said that all sounds like madness |
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Why have a life and then not be alive |
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Why have a mind and then choose to be blind |
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What you call wisdom is the fear that you hide |
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You cannot retreat from those demons inside |
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This is not peace, it's a mask you adorn |
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This is not truth, it's a trap, nothing more |
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And you're too busy running from something you can't ignore |
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If you want to fight |
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Then why are you running |
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If everything is fine for you |
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Why are you stumbling |
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So silent |
