Thinking Out Loud

4

it surprises me just how fast time
goes by, and just how fast we are
wasting it away. not doing
anything with ourselves, and
just sitting here like bumps on a
log.

we're told to go out and change
the world for the better. to make
it different and better. but what
if the world doesn't want to be
fixed? what if it likes being the
way it is?

isn't that what we tell each other?
we say, "be yourself," but here we
are trying to change the world,
when all it is doing is being itself,
and trying to figure itself out, just
like the rest of us.

but that's just me, I've figured that
there's no use in changing me, so
why change anyone else, I'll help
anyone who needs it. I'm here for
anyone who needed it. But don't
go changing me, and I won't go
changing you.

no, I won't ask you to not kill
yourself, I'll simply ask you to
continue on living for just one
more day. one more day. that's
all it is now, one more day.

so don't change yourself. don't
change the world, just be who you
are. who cares about all the
surrounding people? - they're just
background noise we have to learn
to tune out.