Time To Leave

Taught young, the world's wisdom

I told life's a game, the earth will be your stadium

Be alert, pay attention

(One day) Even your friends will become the competition

Trust no one but do remember this, never burn any potential bridges

Know who's who, and what they can do for you

And don't feel bad cause' in the end they're gonna do it to you too

Remember life's not fair

In order to maintain, your gonna have to let you sensitivity be trained

A machine more than a human being

What you say doesn't always have to be what you mean

Tell them what they want to hear if it's to your benefit

And words beyond closed doors are insignificant

Push yourself, never be satisfied

Even if you don't get it, at least you died knowing you tried

Born, live, strive, succeed

Gain it all, bye, now it's time to leave...

Now, all we see is now

Taught young, the world's wisdom

Begin to pay attention and make my own observations

All of the kids working hard for admiration

Trying their best not to meet their social expiration

Kind of hard in a world this finicky

Easily praised and yet destroyed just as quickly

I guess me and this world must not be compatible, cause I don't want its approval to feel valuable

So who's next to climb the wall of success, just to see how good the top truly gets

Chasing lies disguised as going somewhere only to arrive and realize it's really no where'

That's even if you get there in the first place

What an incredible let down we're bound to face when we substitute purpose for cheap counterfeit

Too busy trying to succeed in life that we forget to live it

You can live in the infinite or give in to the immediate

Gain it all but someday you'll have to leave it

This world is temporary and it's heart is selfish

Think to yourself, is this what wealth is

But now, all we see is now and now is not a bad thing but now does bring tomorrow then

Now becomes then

Moments escape, new ones replace them

Don't want to face the end still searching

Asking what in this world did I ever find worth in

What could be worse than life of wasted years

Nothing lasting, nothing true, nothing dear

I fear losing beauty in pursuit of bigger things

I fear a broken home courtesy of the American dream

Maybe that's just me with my emotions on my sleeve, but one way or another we all wear what we believe

Born, live, strive, succeed

Gain it all, bye, now it's time to leave...

But now, we're wasting now