Wake up, Supernova.. rise and grind
If you want to shine then you’ve got to put in the time
If you haven’t got to go to work then why get up at three
Because I love progress more than I like sleep
Oh that’s just way too early; I couldn’t do that myself
Well then you just might spend the rest of your life working for someone else
I’m chasing my dreams while I’m awake
I’ll only miss the opportunities I didn’t take
I’ll only lose if my eyes ain’t on the prize
Sacrifice is to choose paying a price
If only 5% are willing to give then only 5% will get
The other 95 will just have to accept whatever’s left
Whatever’s left is the result of anything other than my best
Do better to get better, expect nothing less
Today I seize the beast by the horns
My painted face to the storm
Naked as the day I was born
Deep in the thorns
Redeeming all the pieces of me that were torn
This is the healing.. feeling like I’m reformed
I sit.. motionless.. beside you.. and at times as if outside of myself.. looking down
I watch you sleeping.. unknowing.. incoherent.. unconscious
I wonder about everything it might take to fully restore you back to life
Even greater than before
I see you now, and know that all the treasure in the world can’t compare to that which is truly alive
You.. you deserve more
We fantasised about winning the lottery, and with the money all the things we’d do
It’s funny I didn’t realise I’d already landed the jackpot, the very day that I won you
There isn’t another soul that I can blame
I threw our winning ticket to the fire, watched it go up in flames
You’ve probably burned everything I have, like I burned everything we had
I’m so ashamed
You fell in love with who I was
Then I pretended to be someone else
You didn’t fall for it, thank god
I was only fooling myself
A false alarm only I can hear
Inside of a me only you can see
A gold spoon in an empty room
A precious flower blossomed too soon
I pray you never know what that feels like
A stifled scream in the dead of night
To the fire now, burn bright
Don’t close your eyes, you’ll miss the lights
Did a few things that I shouldn’t have done, but done a lot more that I’m glad I did
What you’re aiming for is hard to hit, if you don’t know what the target is
And the hardest bit, is learning that you were easy work
Yet I so easily and naively made it hard, for us to work
For what it’s worth, with or without you, it hurts
I feel so deeply entangled within my thoughts right now I can barely piece together words
Tell me, how to craft a worthy patchwork remedy for a broken melody
I’ll cast my lot here and plant a soapbox at your feet everyday until it sparks a memory
Finally, speaking without interruption.. and now without any idea of what more I can say
If I ever told people I’ve been coming here to visit you they’d probably try to put me away
Throw me in some kind of mental institute
Some asylum somewhere for people supposedly outside of their minds
Lock us both up and melt down the key
All just because they’d never ever find among all their precious boxes one to fit us in
You know, they say it’s not at all about what you know
But what we know, is it’s not who you know
It’s who you know who actually gives a shit
Nobody in the world cares about your grand schemes and dreams but you, yourself and you, thats it
That’s at least until you can make those dreams come true
So make it happen, take action, ’cause there’s satisfaction in even a fraction that you do
Show and prove, paint your city, make it pretty and capture the views
Spectacular views
See everything to gain
With absolutely nothing to lose but the blues
And if you actually do
You’ll see this to be factually true
Alteration in your navigation makes your map improve
If you don’t like where your life is at then… that’s for you
The right solution to your life’s improvement lies in wise decisions and their execution
Let’s keep it moving
Little by little makes a lot
It’s all about progression
Give it everything you’ve got
Who laughs doesn’t matter, and who matters doesn’t laugh
Your task, is to double up on what you’re doing, versus how much you care
All you do is keep going.. they wont be laughing when you’re there
Architect of you own destiny, your own future by design
Naysayers keep checking in, tell them you haven’t got the time
And if people expect to offer you less than you’re giving, then they should expect that you decline
That’s fine. Know your worth, and that the best things come to those who work
Earn and live, live and earn
But nothing comes close to the gifts you can give from the things you’ve learned
Your bridges they can burn and your tides can turn
But never giving up is your only concern
Those who give up on you can’t expect to get down with you when you get up
And in this you can trust for sure
Support is everything, but loyalty and respect is more
Never for get what you got in for
For keeps
So dig yourself deep and explore until you find the missing piece
Remember all things are possible and nothing is beyond reach
You’ve heard this all before, I’ve been saying it in your sleep
And I know you’ve been listening ’cause above the noise and the toil I can still hear your heart beat
And inside I can still feel it like its a part of me
Coming alive
Breathing renewed life and bleeding new light into my existence
Who am I but a guy standing by just to witness its brilliance
You could ask me why but to see you shine has been my only mission
And in this instance
I just need you to hide your disguise, put all your fears and pride aside.. and listen
Let your will be strong
Make your will stronger than your won’t
You wont go wrong
You will succeed where others don’t
Believe in yourself and your abilities and what you can achieve
And if you can’t see your greatness or your potential, believe in someone who sees
Sees it in you
Someone who wont be leaving ‘tll you see it too
And you profess that it’s true
That you’re the perfect catalyst to manifest every gift you’ve been blessed
with
You
Yes, you’ve already been at your deepest darkest depths
That’s nothing new
Embark towards your highest brightest heights yet
You already know what to do
Let your mind be free
Explore each and every possibility
There’s so much more to see
Be who you’re supposed to be
You can be down to earth or be up to space
Know that your worth is much more than the world dictates
Feet firmly on the ground
On route to Mars
Your time is now
Be who you are
At one among the stars
A new point of view
You see what you feel
New practices, new politics, new playing field
Stretch yourself, play for real
Invest in yourself, make a deal
But of course, I’m a modern day renaissance man born in London in the late seventies, what do I know
I know that if you put your mind to anything, over time it grows
And so, I’m seeing live with my own eyes, mere dreams turning into real life
I’m encountering souls overcoming their own status quos
I’m witnessing the attainment of goals
I’m seeing doors open wide that used to stay closed
I’m hearing Yes expressed where I used to hear No’s
Get up
I’ve heard too much and I’ve seen too much and I know too much to just let you go
I can’t and I won’t
I’m sorry
But I love you
A gold spoon in an empty room
A precious flower blossomed too soon
I pray you never know what that feels like
A stifled scream in the dead of night
To the fire now, burn bright
Don’t close your eyes, you’ll miss the lights
Molotov cocktails in flight
Look like baby fireflies at this height
What on earth could ever be wrong
When after all is said and done, and all have sang and gone
All that will be left is this love song to ponder on
All of this high frequency rhetoric, all this poetry
Yes it’s poetic
But it’s more phonetic energy
Helping me set free all of what I’ll never need
Permanently forgetting more of what I’ve learned to be
While other mad men would walk towards the edge of eternity
Just to capture only a glimpse of you in the tail end of a moon beam
I wake to discover you here with me and absolutely no part of a dream
You’re the heart of me and the most beautiful thing in this universe I’ve ever
seen
You are awesomeness, incredibly and wonderfully made and not by mistake
You are greatness personified on the planet, why are you waiting to be great
Find a way, or one way make
From there keep straight and for greatness sake try not to arrive late
By your own thoughts and by your own actions you’ll determine your fate
Throughout all of existence, that which doesn’t create.. disintegrates
We’ve been given rise over every tall tree and over every high place
So it makes no sense to me who would ever decide to only grow halfway
That’s only my take though.. what do you say
Like who remembers the embers anyway
What of the smouldering remains after the glowing beauty of the flames
It all melts down, burns out, change is the only thing that stays the same
Ashes to ashes to the death of everything before, toast to the old ways
Yesterday a far away spark in the dark, today a blaze
Wake up, Supernova.. welcome the new day.
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