If you tried
Hands
waving
Goodbye
You
can see it
In my eyes
Cuz I ain’t afraid
In my eyes
Cuz I ain’t afraid
To
die."
I
wrote that at the snot nosed
Age
of seventeen
And
see
A
lot has changed since then.
I’m
older now,
Kinda
have a beard now
Some
fear now
And
kind of a weird style
But
listen
I’ve
learned that it’s far from macho
To
not fear death,
In
fact,
You’re
foolish if you don’t.
You
can see it in the eyes
Of
the little kids in ruined homes
As
they lose hope
Being
choked
With
bruised throats
So
tell me you don’t fear death
Mr.
Big Machismo
Tell
it to the kid on chemo
Even
people
Who’re
living heroes
Fear
death.
I
saw it in my pop’s eyes
The
day his mom passed,
Yes,
The
impact stressed
His
fear of mortality
Even
after months had left
Punk,
I guess
You’ll
see it in our own eyes
Three
years from now
On
those nights
When
the fear is the only reason you survive.
So
don’t look to death
Look
alive
You
don’t look impressed
Look
at life
If
you’re not convinced
Look
at mine
Look
at ours
What
we faced
For
eleven hundred days.
Let’s
call it fate,
Let’s
call it whatever, whenever
To
hang up in its face.
Let’s
leave that call waiting
Cuz
you’ve yet to find your calling
And
when you finally do
It’s
gonna be amazing
So
put your chips all in
And
fuck trying to be that
Hollywood
dude.
You
do more good
Staying
low key
But
the high note
In
the lives of those you meet.
And
foes will speak
But
don’t let those quotes make you weak
Fuel
to the fire
Make
your flow unique
Soul
of a lion
Like
it’s supposed to be
Get
it Mr. Big Machismo?
Now
you know what I know
What
we know
That
even people who’re living evil
Fear
death.
See this
poem is what
I’d
tell you
If I
could
If I
had that chance.
The
seventeen year old snot nose
Writing
bars, ignorant
Of
life and death
But
pretends like he understands.
I
used to think I knew it all,
Hell,
I still think I do
I always
was hard headed
But
never weak hearted
To
the seventeen year olds now,
Life
will get you down
If
you let it.
But stay
strong,
Stay
vigilant
No
matter the twists and turns
Hits
or burns, gifts or curse.
Just stay
strong,
Stay
vigilant
Mourn
death
But
celebrate life.
Stay
strong,
Stay
vigilant
The
last thing
To
die is hope.
As
for me,
I
can’t change my past
However,
I
can update the lines I wrote:
Like "We
can save each other
If
we tried
Hands
waving
Goodbye
You
can see it
In
my eyes,
Apollo
the Child
Is
afraid to die."
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