Letras
The problem with us is the values we grow in our bodies
Are rarely bifocal.
Our EQ extends to our family and friends
and the shit we see smeared on our socials.
We're raised to assume that right out of the womb
there are things to which we are entitled,
but when water is free you'll just drown in the sea
if the thought of new learning is frightful.
By cutting all dissidents out you ensure that
Your voice echoes back like it's haunted.
You're not hearing crowds, it's only your voice just as loud
reaffirming the answer you wanted.
Confirm with confirmed all you like,
but don't fill up your mind without space left for others to fill in,
or in twenty years' time you'll be feeling just fine
saying "I'm right; it must be the children."
While you wait,
the mistakes that I've made
are the way that I know I have grown.
While you wait,
you're doomed if the only
opinion you need is your own.
Jimmy, you see - sit down, look at me -
there's a problem and you are no help.
You never related to people you hate,
now you're full-up and full of yourself.
If you're just as anti- the thought of considering others
as you and your fairweather friends,
by closing your eyes all you're doing is widening divides;
Yeah you're making an "other" of them.
Why do people want to call me out?
Well, it can't be the things that you say,
Or the things that you do.
Why won't they accept what I'm about?
The only one here with control of your actions is you.
While you wait,
admitting you're wrong isn't easy
but neither's the truth.
While you wait,
no matter your age nor your youth.
Remember that if you've never let yourself
be vulnerable with others
you'll never find you're honest with yourself.
But it's not the end - it's never too late
to accept that you've got to be better than this.
Your ignorant bliss is a mask that you are sweating against
out of fear of reflecting at last,
when it's only keeping you stuck in the past.
Accept without change that improvement is dead,
and that if you build castles of sand round your head,
you'll disappear in your quilt
while you smother your guilt,
and believe you know better
than everyone else on the earth.
Yeah, you won't get the things you expect,
you'll get what you deserve.