Currently Playing: Staind – How About You
If someone else showed you the way
Would you take the wheel and steer?
1It hurts me that you’re not ashamed
Of what you’re doing here1
2If they jumped off a bridge
Would you meet them on the ground?
Or would you try and claim
That it never made a sound?2
Everyone plays they’re hand dealt
And learns to walk through life themselves
Not everything in life is handed on a plate
When people think your words are true
It doesn’t matter what you do
3I sold my soul to get here
How ’bout you?3
So you choose to force your hand
What a strange way to make friends
4And you always change the rules
So the drama never ends4
5And you blindly go through life
Judging only by its worth5
Just try not to forget
That the meek inherit earth
6So please don’t take offense
This is just a point of view
‘Cause I’m the only one
who will say these things to you6
1There’s a lot of ugliness in the world. You can’t really argue with that. What I hate to see is people that continue to do not-so-upstanding things and they don’t even care. It’s like the fact that the world is a messed up place makes it OK for them to follow suit. Do they not understand what they’re doing? Sometimes maybe they truly don’t, but c’mon, that can’t happen often. The worst is those that know exactly what is happening and they don’t feel the slightest bit guilty about it.
2The ultimate question of friendship and loyalty. It’s not the typical “If your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it to?” question; instead it asks if you’d meet them on the other side to help them see the error of their ways. If a friend was going through a tough time, would you be there for them? Or would you rather go out of your way to convince yourself that nothing was wrong in the first place and there’s nothing you could have done to save them?
3This really hits home for me. There are times when I really feel like I’ve lost a big part of who I am (or was?) in order to be accepted in this stupid world we live in. I’d like to say that I never care what anyone thinks of me, and that I never do anything just because it’s what someone else wants. But that would be a load of shit. It happens. Whether I like it or not. How ’bout you?
4I see this all the time. Nothing in life can ever be simple. People constantly change “the rules” that they live by and then they expect everyone around them to instantly know what they want. Give me a break. It doesn’t work that way. I’ve come to realize that drama is something you can never escape completely, but changing things constantly will only make it worse, never better.
5So many people focus on all the material things in this world: brand name clothes, the latest techno gadgets, money…does any of that really matter? I can be bad about that at times, too, but I’d like to think that at the end of the day it’s not really what’s important to me. Sure it’s fun to have nice things, but at the end of the day I try to remember how miraculous it is that we even exist on this planet. When’s the last time you just looked up at the stars at night? How does one even judge a person’s worth? It sure as hell isn’t by their gadgets.
6I can be a very blunt person. Sometimes people see it as a blessing, other times they secretly (or not) hate me for it. You can be sure I’m almost always going to tell it like it is (or at least like I see it). If you don’t want an honest answer you better not be asking the question. Unfortunately, sometimes it seems like I’m the only one willing to speak up and tell people what I see. Even when I know other people feel the same, why is it that I’m the only one with the guts to stand up and say what’s on my mind? Is everyone else really that afraid, or am I overstepping my bounds?
How ’bout you?