Underneath - David Wilcox

I know that compassion is all out of fashion

And anger is all the rage…

Grow up and give in to that cynical spin

That you see on most every page

We all know what’s wrong with the system

How the people are puppets and fools

If they’re not strong, it will trick them

They’ll get used up like factory tools:

The kids just give up in those schools…

…yeah, but what is it, really, that’s keeping me

From living a life that’s true?

When the worries speak louder than wisdom

It drowns out all the answers I knew

So I’m tossed on the waves on the surface

Still, the mystery’s dark and deep

With a much more frightening stillness…

Underneath

Hopelessness always comes easy

But «easy» does not make it right

Courage can look past that surface

But fear will still put up a fight

When I get scared and scattered

And I don’t know where to begin

Why even care;

it doesn’t matter

Why fight when you know you can’t win?

It’s easier just to give in

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