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Life is a Metaphor

from Sound Thinking by JB

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They say Joe this is ya moment, grab the mic and hold it//
Grab their ear and own it, thank for you that//
The matter's for the mind, but what is it worth//
Without the heat for the heart, where love can pick his nest and birth//
Cause love is a bird, let him be preferably//
A nightingale who salutes you, alludes you to the dawn//
Sings to me, beautifully, before I knew he was gone//
But the inspiration of his words on my heart last long//
So now my mind's racing fast, thoughts to quick//
To note 'em down on a pad, and so I use//
my laptop 'till it hits reset, pages turn blank//
And so they tell me get a mac but I can't afford that//
And so I scribble on pages like infatuation//
So passionate and adequate your next realization//
Is due to inspiration, yes you're facin' the process//
That's quite intricate, the way the words convey what I express//

Life is a stairway to that which we admire//
We stumble over steps who take us higher//
But I set my foot higher and know that my Maker//
Will help me change life into an escalator//
I said I said a stairway to take us higher//
But we stumble over stepts, st- stumble over steps//
But I set my foot higher and know that my Maker//
Will help me change life into an escalator//

I measure succes in people not money//
You think that's funny, you think dude's a dummy//
Well I certainly hate all the post-modernism//
Everybody their own 'ism' that stuff is prison//
But I forgive 'em, cause sinnin is human nature I been there//
I done that, I did it again and again, said God forbid 'em//
Now I'm standing amidst all the demons in my head//
I fall into a nightmare but I wake up instead//
Bathing in sweat, mind burning, heart yearning//
Happens over and over asking “when am I learning”//
But kinda silly to worry for the tides to be turning
Cus I see it's only me, who can make the bridges burning//
No I won't wait to go straight, won't desecrate my fate//
Gonna adapt my state to gaining traits//
Now watch me go, make the sun share a quark//
Make a fire from the spark let it glow in the dark//

Life is a stairway to that which we admire//
We stumble over steps who take us higher//
But I set my foot higher and know that my Maker//
Will help me change life into an escalator//
I said I said a stairway to take us higher//
But we stumble over stepts, st- stumble over steps//
But I set my foot higher and know that my Maker//
Will help me change life into an escalator//

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from Sound Thinking, released March 9, 2014

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