Strive for Growth

Intro (0:17)

 

Each day I go, my brain, it grows

The more I know, good I suppose?

Those bits of advice you shove to the side

Always behind bars, locked up inside

Your deepest fears know change is pain

It's time for change, but can you sustain?

Without a drive you won't survive

So strive for growth and be alive

 

Verse (0:34)

 

I had a few friends once, they did not last

I grew up quick and now they in the past

Remember when Saturday's had meaning?

Dismembered conversations, morally defeating

You told me you are definitely left-leaning,

And I said "Fuck politics, dude!"

In hindsight, you might think I was rude

But you just jealous of my mood.

Persistent pleasure every day, intend to make it all this way.

Variables engaged through intelligent design,

Articulate approximation to keep it all in line,

This existence is mine, you will surely find

None is by accident, I just was gifted with a mind

That allows me the sight to arrange what I see

Into facts of my life, make you strive to be me.

I decide what I am and who I want me to be.

I'm sure a day will come when you will see the chances you had

And you will contact me and try to be the nicest fucking lad

But, I will not forget the displeasure of knowing what you did

Because I don't want your shitty habits rubbing off onto my kid.

You're flipping burgers, taking orders,

I'm too artistic to be defined by borders.

Cubicle, working for a boss

You fucking hate, I'm at a loss

How could you be so weak not to see

What I see so bright, like a sun to me

That change won't come, and that it isn't free

So I'll write my own history.

10 years from now, you'll still be sad

I'll be doing what I love, as a Dad

My kids will know I worked for them

I changed my life when I grabbed this pen.

So hear this song, and wonder why

I'm rising to the top while you're just fucking dying.

You're eyeing my pathway, you can't forge your own

And that's why I will rise to the top all alone.

 

Hook 2 (1:30)

 

Each day I go, my brain, it grows

The more I know, good I suppose?

Those bits of advice you shove to the side

Always behind bars, locked up inside

Your deepest fears know change is pain

It's time for change, but can you sustain?

Without a drive you won't survive

So strive for growth and be alive