I used to only smoke cigarettes when people were watching, but now I only want to when they're not.
I wrote the screenplay to my life and picked out the props, but it's harder than I thought to try to stick to the plot.
I hit a different pothole every time I leave my residence.
Choking on the pestilence of being a pessimist.
Feeling restless and tired of being stuck on this mood swing.
Time to find my heart some new strings.
I let too many people take scissors around the ones that I did have and that's the reason why I burned these bridges to ash.
They're in the past of my path and my eyes are on the what's to come.
Moving till my lungs rupture.
I will never cut and run.
I am just my mother's son/father's youngest.
Tryna minimize my carbon thumbprints and respect karma's circumference.
See what goes around comes around so I don't trace the radius.
That's half-assed and I wanna be part of life's amazingness.
I got a smile on my face, what a coinkydink.
It's shining brighter than the diamonds on your pinky ring.
I guess it must be the weather in the air.
I'm feeling so alive like I never really cared about depression or defeat, stress, loss or regret.
Then the sun breaks through so I pause to reflect.
Sometimes in life all we need is some time to gain composure and a launch in our step.
The day we're born the clock is set to wind down till we pass.
We're driving in a car with an ounce left of gas.
Constantly searching for a near-by station.
A never-ending scavenge hunt for sheer vivation.
But life takes what it has given, so live for the day.
And search for wisdom if you're fixing to stay.
And when it feels like the world's too cruel to be kind, just keep your head up, 'cause good things come in due time.
credits
from Sunnyside Up,
released July 4, 2011
Produced by Smash Moody
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