Don't waste time pretending
How are you going to be you
Don't try to prove anything
How will you free your mind
Don't be so sure of yourself
How will you learn something new
Don't be afraid to need someone
How will you fall in love with me
Don't be so hard for me to touch
How will I lay my head on your heart

I don’t ask too many questions
At least not that I’m aware
Maybe I do or just maybe I don’t think so
Except that I will if it means something
Like a stranger I’ve come to know

You don’t have to tell me
What you believe is your affair
Perception is when somebody says it’s so
I’ll listen to you even if it’s nothing
I’m not worried about what you know

We can go where the light is quiet
And the darkness loud
All we have to do is let it be so
We’ll avoid the popular crowd
And sing songs in Spanish
About love and tales of woe

I don’t need to know your religion
Or your favorite prayer
It’s not important that you say it’s so
I’ll look into your eyes to find my blessing
And hopefully then I’ll really know

We can go live in the soft climate  
Underneath no dark cloud
We will bury ourselves in the same row
No matter how often it’s been plowed
Our memories will never vanish
Not in the heart of a farmer or a crow

Avoid expectation
At all costs
Awareness is knowing when not to care
Of course you care
But you don’t concern yourself with lessons
Or form
Unless it’s your own
The worst thing is to be afraid
If you are a part of the scene
Then you can be a cowboy in a commune
It's an adventure without an agenda
Try not to think about it
Everything thing is a way out
Nothing is anything
The moment you feel different is the door
All it takes is one person to get you
There is no way to measure it
It’s not popularity
It’s not an ego
You walk like a cowboy in a castle
Take off your boots
Or wear them
But don’t make up your mind about it
And don’t answer questions
If anybody says they know you
That’s just them
It’s not you
They tried to put you somewhere
Somewhere that makes them feel better
The best thing I ever did was stand up to a friend
This is what I do
This is what I’m going to do
And being a man is not being a man
It’s not being a woman
It’s not being anything
Except being what I feel

I can’t say that I’ve paid any dues
I had a doctor once give me bad news
It didn’t put my life into a death bed
There was nothing except fear in my head

Let’s pretend I’m drunk and confident
Even though I’m not
You said all I had to do was ask
Why would desire make me wait
There had to be a reason for it
Maybe that’s why you’re always late

I don’t have a palette full of pretension
All I'll remember is the money I spent
I can only swallow the plans of tomorrow
I can only paint all of my mistakes
I saved a spot in the middle of a canvas
Drank cheap wine and painted your sorrow

Am I tempting God without a prayer
Am I so fatalistic that I don’t even care
I heard someone tell me it was God's will
It was as if life had no meaning or thrill

Let’s pretend I’m sober and shy
Even though I’m not
I told you why I could live without you
It’s too easy when you feel free
There had to be a reason for it
Maybe that’s why a sunset is all I can see

Just tell me what you want
Tear my head off so you can see my heart
But do you know who I'm talking to?
It’s there ready for your hands to pull it out
But you’ve been bloodied enough
So I have to be the one to hand it to you

You ask yourself
As if you were preparing for a play
How would you have reacted?
Mostly calm mostly calm
So you wish to say
How would they remember you?
Mostly crazy mostly crazy
So they do remember
You made things happen
But it was all an act
Honesty was their enemy
You watched as your friend became them
Was he corrupted
Or just afraid?
I do not wish to become old
But it has become my last hope
Duty all I have
Love a lone tree far inside a meadow
Each leaf a picture of expectation
My children the light carried by the breeze
Running long with discovery
Will I live long enough to feel young again
If I see it in your eyes then I will believe
Look upon the way that I live
Fill the distance laid upon the horizon
Bring the calm that I need
The love that I miss
The life that I dream
The meaning you have become

Deep breath
Yes, there is still something there
A life that I can summon
And I do

My face has changed
But my mind is calm
Not about the world
Just my self-image
Truly
It’s the most amazing thing
I don’t care
But I promise to take a bath

Did you know?
What’s that?
You couldn’t hear me?
And I thought I was so loud
No slight impact
No glancing meaning
Not even an annoyance
It was as if I wasn’t even there
That’s how I learned
Not too handsome
Not too smart
Only the keeper of my own flame

I turned the key
Then decided to walk
I opened an umbrella
But left it inside
I stood up a ladder
But laid down instead
I played a piano
But I didn’t need a song
I remembered what I said
But the meaning was mine
It was all a dream
To be different
To start then stop
To do then not
To know not taught
It’s my way now

Lay your body in the glistening sand
Let you hair wipe the sand clean
Feel it pulling you away
While I wash over you

Lay your mind upon the light
Let your eyes reflect it
Feel it pulling you away
While I eclipse your past

Lay your heart upon my love
Let your fears accept it
Feel it pulling you away
While I draw you near