Wishes

Are you depressed,
sick, tired, worn out and stressed?
Have you no place to go and capture some rest.

This world can eat you alive if you let it,
but I ain't got time for that so forget it.

Do the covers not keep you warm where you lie,
is the no one to dry your tears when you cry?
When you are hungry where do you go for a meal?
I bet it ain't far, and you ain't gotta steal.

Sure the world has become a fucked up place,
full of deceit, trickery, anger and haste.
What good is moaning to the leaves in the fall,
you can't stop them from falling can't change nothing at all.

See, we all want to orchestrate this perfect utopia,
the more you play director, the more I lose hope for ya.
What makes one man smile is sure to make another sad,
We don't know what we've got till we've lost all we had.

This world can eat you alive if you let it,
but I ain't got time for that so forget it.

I cried yesterday for what I laugh at today.
How big of a role do your emotions play,
when it come to the way things really are.
Are you driving a lemon or riding a star?

One day you had a feast for a king,
you threw up your nose and touched not a thing.
The next time I saw you was more of the same,
Tomorrow you'll be eating a hot dog and placing the blame.

People been known to get real down,
all our expressions replaced with a frown.
We use therapists, pills, unhealthy vices,
to add a little flavor to a life without spices.

This world can eat you alive if you let it,
but I ain't got time for that so forget it.

That fact that emotions they come and they go,
let's me know they can't be trusted to decide what I know.
Decide you own personal truths, however inconvenient,
act accordingly and hope God will be lenient.

When it comes down to the sheer fact of it all,
who you are supposed to be is nobody's call.
We can all be hypocrites in some way, shape, or form,
we ultimately do what we want there is no norm.

If only people would do as we pleased,
we wouldn't have to spend so much time on our knees.
Praying for other to change as we'd like,
left cradling disappointment when it doesn't end right.

This world can eat you alive if you let it,
but I ain't got time for that so forget it.

I wish I could leave you with the answers we seek,
I wish I could instill power to the weak.
I wish that tomorrow things aren't so bleak,
I wish that all you ever wanted, you get it.
This world can eat you alive if you let it.