I would like, if I may, at the end of the day
Before my posture is crooked and my hair is all gray
Before they shun all my rambles and lock me away
I’d like very much to be helpful

I know my mind’s going
And I’m losing my youth
And my thoughts are outdated and hardly that truthful…

But there’s a light in my heart every now and again
That flickers on swiftly, and I never know when
But it bursts with ideas and faith in the ride
Of this race full of faces, and it fills me with pride
For this beautiful song that we sing on the earth
Cause the thing is, I usually don’t think that it’s worth it

I usually believe that we’re lost and appalling
Like the past was the peak and these days we’re just falling
Like there isn’t a hope
Like there isn’t a rope
Like we crawl on the ground
All of us groping for a place we once found

So when this feeling comes around
And takes hold of my hard hand
I see these as the ravings of a lonely old man
And that nature’s more powerful than we’ll ever be
And in these sweet moments, I finally see
There was never a moment when we were not free
When we were not dancing and painting the views
Of a wonderful world that nature is choosing

There’s just so much beauty in all that we’ve got
Yet I focus so much on the things that are not

I’ve been wasting my time
And at the end of the day
When I harp on what’s wrong
I make it that way

So take the advice of a lonely old man…
Accept this grand gift of all that’s at hand
Let it sing in your heart with a warm, quiet smile
And make every sweet moment you have here worthwhile

Once a prophet king foresaw an ending…
To the kingdom full of life that he had wrought
The people that he charged himself defending
And even those, it seemed, that we was not

So he spent his days and nights in deep disturbance
Preparing for the darkness he had seen
He charged his peons, peasants, priests and servants
In helping halt the forecast of his dream

Soon the whispers leaked throughout the nation
Soon the people plunged into a fright
They knew there was a nearing devastation
And they hid away to shun the coming blight

And the trade routes stopped their trading
And the farms fell into dust
Every church and merchant’s purchase further fading
As the mettle of the nation turned to rust

And their gold turned into tokens
And their joy turned into shame
By the will of the people their nation was broken
And no outside force was to blame

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Once a prophet king foresaw an ending…
And watched his precious kingdom fall to flame
And saw within the fires of his own tending
That the dreamer and the dreamed are one the same

When in doubt– down and out
And you’ve seen all life’s a bout
When your were-ies weigh you down
And no won seems to be around

Yeah, when it feels like you’re a loan
And all your troubles over-groan
And all that madders hits ya home
And seams unsewn forever…

It’ll all come together, so don’t be a frayed
The daze and weaks will come to fade
So try to re-member when you are dis-made

The beauty in life is worth the weight

You know much more than you say…
You know where you should go
And you know what you should do

You know what’s bad for you
You know what’s hurting your friends and your family–
So stop.

You don’t need to wake up—
You already are.

You have your thumb on the pulse, perception, dilation
and every aspect of the Glasco Coma Scale of this planet

Stop acting stupid
You’re not.
Stop playing ignorant
You know.

Quit this little smily awkward ho-hum
dumb-dee-dumb playcating sensitive juvenile bullshit

Quit hurting people

Stop these circling thoughts that hurt yourself
Stop setting yourself up for falls and misery
just so you can play this innocent victim
when you aren’t.

Just be nice
AKA– not an asshole
Doubly so at yourself

You’re far more of an asshole to yourself
than everyone else in your life combined
Times FIVE
and you know it
So stop.

Stop hurting the planet
Stop killing the animals
Stop filling yourself with poisons
Every single day

Stop illing yourself
Stop killing yourself
Stop maiming yourself
Stop shaming yourself

You’re being a fucking asshole
And you don’t deserve it.

You don’t even need to try to be happy
loving, peaceful, godly, charitable, compassionate,
or any of that shit!

That’s the natural order of the universe–!
It just happens.
Stop being a dick to yourself and everyone around you
And it just happens.

This world’s a good place
It treats us really, really nicely
It’s time to be nice back

I never knew that love was wise
or open eyes
or letting go an old disguise
I never knew I wore

I never knew that love meant more
than simply caring, sharing, or
bearing all to someone who
stares with love right back at you

I never knew this sunshine tingle
waking every single atom
in my body as I fathom
rising, glowing, wafting waves
of steaming life in lofting lays
of widened worlds beyond the few
I’ve ever known
And never knew
the ways I grew were slow until
you came along in song to spill
this crash of open-minded hope
and broken laws I must’ve wrote
and potent scope of widened will
and thrill of life and heightened stillness
filling me

I never knew till there was you
the sea of life but trickled through
the holes left in my wall

I used to think that love was love~
but now I see it’s All

It seems like our dreams are crushed by our foes
Our leaders, our jobs, the world, and our woes
But look a little closer and the truth often shows
That we are the walls that we find

The doubts and the fears that vibrate our minds
The trembling bouts that rise in the spine
That cloud out the sun that just wants to shine~
Mostly, it’s simply our doing

Don’t be your villain!
Stop saying NO!
If life does the killin’ — then yeah– let it go
If somebody stands and demands they’re your foe
Sometimes you’ll need to back down

But most of the time, in most every place
You’re certain to find that this isn’t the case
In all that you try, and tremble to face
You block the way to your wealth

But today is your day to make peace with yourself
For the sake of your future and state of your health
Let the world crush you if it really wants to
But never again let your killer be you