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He knows he will never be smart enough To do much more than lift heavy things He is eighteen and struggles to read And walks like the earth wants to stand him still And always smiles Jagger lipped and crooked tooth Regardless of the reason He just likes to smile And knowing all of this about himself doesn’t stop him from trying Everything was born with the desire to be better Haven’t you heard of squirrels trying to grow wings? They can be seen gliding between trees with the hope of a true takeoff Or birds that prayed to be human? Birds that live as long as we do And then they learned to speak Or small brightly colored frogs that wanted to be as strong as giants So they made their own skin poison And other creatures learned to fear their beauty He is afraid of his own reflection Once threw a television through a window While watching the reality show COPS He watched a police officer be mean to a woman for no reason I found him after the crash Staring at the broken glass saying “People aren’t supposed to do that to other people” He knows he doesn’t know much And is confused when everyone isn’t nice He knows You can keep a loaded gun and still trust everyone If Keep it in your heart And Use is to fire off adrenalin when you need to be fearless He knows he is going to feel like a real man some day Despite his everything Nothing’s going to stop him from trying
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 4:34 AM UTC
He Just Wants to be a Man Some Day
He knows he will never be smart enough To do much more than lift heavy things He is eighteen and struggles to read And walks like the earth wants to stand him still And always smiles Jagger lipped and crooked tooth Regardless of the reason He just likes to smile And knowing all of this about himself doesn’t stop him from trying Everything was born with the desire to be better Haven’t you heard of squirrels trying to grow wings? They can be seen gliding between trees with the hope of a true takeoff Or birds that prayed to be human? Birds that live as long as we do And then they learned to speak Or small brightly colored frogs that wanted to be as strong as giants So they made their own skin poison And other creatures learned to fear their beauty He is afraid of his own reflection Once threw a television through a window While watching the reality show COPS He watched a police officer be mean to a woman for no reason I found him after the crash Staring at the broken glass saying “People aren’t supposed to do that to other people” He knows he doesn’t know much And is confused when everyone isn’t nice He knows You can keep a loaded gun and still trust everyone If Keep it in your heart And Use is to fire off adrenalin when you need to be fearless He knows he is going to feel like a real man some day Despite his everything Nothing’s going to stop him from trying
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 4:34 AM UTC
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