"God don't make no promises that He don't keep,
You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep.
Counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts,
Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger's got you tied up in knots.
You got men who can't hold their peace, women who can't control their tongues,
The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young.
Do you ever wonder just what God requires?,
You think he's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires.
You can't take it with you and you know that it's too worthless to be sold,
They tell you, "Time is money" as if your life was worth its weight in gold.
When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up,
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? "
Is getting older supposed to be so hard? No, not for the reasons which you're thinking right now in that head of yours. I'm not scared of getting older, I feel scared about the expectations and the changes. I know I should celebrate come saturday but I don't feel the need to. I haven't felt this particular need for nearly five years now. It's just another day. I wish I could leave it at that. But I can't. This day changed so much and every year it will keep changing the person associated with it from his most fundamental being to the outer extremes which people are familiar with. Ok then. No big deal. My mother suggested I should sleep it off, that way maybe the day won't happen. That's why she's been celebrating her 30th birthday for about ten years now. My grandmother finally reached her 40th last year after about twenty years at 39. But who knows, maybe she has a point. If you weren't there, then it didn't happen. So nothing changed. If only.
