Downplay - 12/04/08

Paint splattered
Tables turned
Hearts shattered
Memories burned

You think too much
About where you’re going
You’re in a rush
Never slowing

You’re going way too fast
Beginnings don’t last
Time to turn the pages
Don’t forget to read the words

Automatic
Let it turn
Systematic
Let it burn

Slow down
It’s not a race
She says
“Don’t rip the lace, now”
Slow down
It’s not a race
She says
“Don’t turn around.”

They say
You’re gonna be the best
But it’s possible
You’ll miss out on the rest

Can you live this way?
I’d go insane
Will you be okay?
Their words are in vain

Automatic
Let it turn
Systematic
Let it burn

Slow down
It’s not a race
She says
“Don’t rip the lace, now”
Slow down
It’s not a race
She says
“Don’t turn around”

Will you look back
On the things you didn’t do?
Don’t regret unmade mistakes
Don’t forget about you

Slow down
Life’s not a race
Don’t turn around

Slow down
They’ll come around
Think it through
Don’t forget about you

Automatic
Let it turn
Systematic
Let it burn

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What it’s about; A friend and I had a conversation a few months ago about life. The question – is it better to simply live and have fun doing it, or to work your tail off to be the best you possibly can? I think the conclusion we came to was both. Or neither, depending on how you look at it. It doesn’t particularly matter how you live your life, so long as you’re happy with it. And when you’re not, you need to change something.
My personal view is that if you’re not having fun, screw what the rest of the world says and do something you love doing. Life is short and it’s not worth wasting it on something you don’t care about because you’re trying to please everyone else.
Other notes; The ‘automatic’ lines kept playing in my head one day, but I never came up with anything to fit them into. Now with this, I like it. For me, if you go automatic, you’re just taking things as they come. But systematic is going with the system, and that doesn’t work for me.