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3 years ago

Good friends are hard to find. Treat them well.
You never know when you'll find yourself in the shadows.

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-Lyrics-

I don’t want to miss you
You have your life
I’ll hold you back
With the bullshit from mine
It’s hard to accept
I must let you go
We were best friends
It’s all that I know

Tonight’s wreckage, sitting on the table
The guilt it’s strong enough to leave a man disabled
He’s got, two choices, that’s really all he has
It’s life or death, I cancelled all my plans
Cause there’s no point in getting wrapped up in a routine
The grass is just as green on your side, quit sitting on the fence
You paying rent for that space that your invading
The air you think your wasting
The time that you’ve been racing
But who, who is it that your trying to impress
If not for yourself, who deserves the best this world has to offer
It gives it away without reserve
So close your eyes and welcome back to your mother earth

I don’t want to miss you
You have your life
I’ll hold you back
With the bullshit from mine
It’s hard to accept
I must let you go
We were best friends
It’s all that I know

Now wait a minute, how did we get to tipping point
We seen it coming, we turned our heads in disregard
You better believe your actions have an impact ont his world
You better believe what you put in comes back at you
Despite the way you think it disappears whenever you can’t see it
So you buy a ready made life, with a ready made secret
It’s not meant to last forever, built in obsolescence
They count on that shit breaking, count on you to change your preference
Now you open your eyes, open to reveal
What they advertise, operating interference
And while you navigate this sea of what you want dissatisfaction grows cause you pretend to be something your not
You’re not a consumer
You’re not the choice between this or that
You’re not what’s in your wallet
You’re not the clothes on your back
The value of your life won’t be defined by your possessions
Social class disparity provides us a lesson
It seems that those who have the least have the most of what matters
To be content is finding peace
In peace you gain the power
To pursue your dreams without a selfish theme to be implied
Take time to count your blessings and share in the joy to be alive

I don’t want to miss you
You have your life
I’ll hold you back
With the bullshit from mine
It’s hard to accept
I must let you go
We were best friends
It’s all that I know

Am I a hypocrite, do I talk shit straight out my ass
Do my intentions qualify, do they allow me to pass
If knowing’s half the battle, then shit I’d be a scholar
I’d write three books on social change and then I’d retire
But that’s not the case, cause half the time I’m twiddling my thumbs
Hung up on possibilities but devoted to none
I’m delighted by the idea of what is my potential
These opportunities surround me, and my growth is exponential
I see amazing things happen in the world every day
I see the sun rise and feel it’s light shine down on me
And in that moment, I can finally say
The change I want in this world has to begin with me

I don’t want to miss you
You have your life
I’ll hold you back
With the bullshit from mine
It’s hard to accept
I must let you go
We were best friends
It’s all that I know

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