[Verse 1]
The problem with us is the values we grow in our bodies are rarely bifocal
Our EQ extends to our family and friends and the shit we see smeared on our socials
We're raised to assume that right out of the womb there are things to which we are entitled
But when water is free you'll just drown in the sea if the thought of new learning is frightful
[Verse 2]
By cutting all dissidents out you ensure that your voice echoes back, like its haunted
You're not hearing crowds, its only your voice, just as loud, reaffirming the answer you wanted
Confirm with get fucked all you like, but don't fill up your mind without space left for others to fill in
Or in twenty years time you'll be feeling just fine saying, "I'm right, it must be the children."
[Chorus]
(While you wait)
The mistakes that I've made are the way that I know I have grown
(While you wait)
You're doomed if the only opinion you need is your own
[Verse 3]
Jimmy, you see, sit down, look at me, there's a problem and you are no help
You never related to people you hate, now you're full up and full of yourself
If you're just as anti- the thoughts of considering others, as you and your fair-weather friends
By closing your eyes all you're doing is widening divides, yeah you're making an other of them
[Bridge]
(Why do people want to call me out?)
Well it can't be the things that you say, or the things that you do
(Why won't they accept what I'm about?)
The only one here with control of your actions is you
[Chorus]
(While you wait)
Admitting you're wrong isn't easy but neither's the truth
(While you wait)
No matter your age, nor your youth, remember
(If you've never let yourself be vulnerable with others
You'll never find you're honest with yourself.)
But it's not the end, its never too late to accept that you've got to be better than this
Your ignorant bliss is a mask that you are sweating against, out of fear of reflecting your past, when its all that's keeping you stuck in the past
Accept without change that improvement is dead, and that if you build castles of sand round your head, you'll disappear in your quilt while you smother your guilt
And believe you know better than everyone else on the earth
Yeah, you won't get the things you expect, you'll get what you deserve
The problem with us is the values we grow in our bodies are rarely bifocal
Our EQ extends to our family and friends and the shit we see smeared on our socials
We're raised to assume that right out of the womb there are things to which we are entitled
But when water is free you'll just drown in the sea if the thought of new learning is frightful
[Verse 2]
By cutting all dissidents out you ensure that your voice echoes back, like its haunted
You're not hearing crowds, its only your voice, just as loud, reaffirming the answer you wanted
Confirm with get fucked all you like, but don't fill up your mind without space left for others to fill in
Or in twenty years time you'll be feeling just fine saying, "I'm right, it must be the children."
[Chorus]
(While you wait)
The mistakes that I've made are the way that I know I have grown
(While you wait)
You're doomed if the only opinion you need is your own
[Verse 3]
Jimmy, you see, sit down, look at me, there's a problem and you are no help
You never related to people you hate, now you're full up and full of yourself
If you're just as anti- the thoughts of considering others, as you and your fair-weather friends
By closing your eyes all you're doing is widening divides, yeah you're making an other of them
[Bridge]
(Why do people want to call me out?)
Well it can't be the things that you say, or the things that you do
(Why won't they accept what I'm about?)
The only one here with control of your actions is you
[Chorus]
(While you wait)
Admitting you're wrong isn't easy but neither's the truth
(While you wait)
No matter your age, nor your youth, remember
(If you've never let yourself be vulnerable with others
You'll never find you're honest with yourself.)
But it's not the end, its never too late to accept that you've got to be better than this
Your ignorant bliss is a mask that you are sweating against, out of fear of reflecting your past, when its all that's keeping you stuck in the past
Accept without change that improvement is dead, and that if you build castles of sand round your head, you'll disappear in your quilt while you smother your guilt
And believe you know better than everyone else on the earth
Yeah, you won't get the things you expect, you'll get what you deserve
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