Lose myself

Can you hear it? Can you see it? Can you feel it?
Say it.
Can you make it? Can you build it? Can you ruin it?
Do it.
Can you teach it? Can you learn it? Can you think it?
Take it.
Can you get it? Can you give it? Can you change it?
Why not just be yourself?
In your sunshine. In your darkness. In your lifetime.
Just give in.
On the road. In the shadow. With the flowers.
Be within.
In your dream world. Through the daylight. In the real life.
You pretend
Being no one, seeing nothing, going nowhere,
Like a creep.
Would you stop it? Will you heal it? Do you want it
For real?
Let them crush it. Let them blow it. Let them take it.
They can kill.
What you think, what you know, what you do –
Just screw.
Where’s your shoe? Where’s your hat?
Where are you?
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We are losing ourselves confusing right & wrong
We are getting through nothingness pretending to have meaning
But to be strong takes so much of kindness, so much of self-control
And finally we find the world lying under the mouse scroll
I’m so glad I can see through the blind folder
That closes my eyes but protects my soul
From the stupidity that getting closer,
From the demography crisis and birth control

I wanna shout I’d better lose myself in the music
I’d better take everything & lay it on the line
And though the rhymes I like sometimes so abusing
I’m gonna bet my people will survive.

Who taught me the wisdom I never proud?
None. It came with the wind to my soul.
As soon as the birds gave me wings to fly above the crowd
The world knocked me out, pushed me down, let me off
Forgetting the pain, not noticing fear
So faithless I rambled around not thinking what’s gonna be next 
The sounds from Heaven or Hell – I don’t know.
I don’t see any sense in this basis –
Came into my mind, opened my eyes, & taught me not to pretend.

And I wanna shout I’d better lose myself in the music
I’d better take everything & lay it on the line
And though the rhymes I like sometimes so abusing
I’m gonna bet my people will survive.