Blind Faith - Baba Brinkman, Josh Martinez

Someone told me to believe in myself, but I needed

A reason, because I couldn’t see for myself

So I teach myself and increase my skills

And I’ll believe when I see results

If at first you don’t succeed, go home and smoke some weed

Watch some TV shows and go to sleep

But don’t forget to include yourself when you’re counting sheep

Life is but a dream for those who float gently down the stream

Wow, that sounds sweet, but to be precise

I’d rather inhabit reality and bring my dreams to life

Even when it seems unlikely, I’m the type to keep fighting

Just to be feisty, ‘cause there’s so many factors

That can hold back the progress of a solo act

With practically no stature, so go ahead and throw it at me

I know exactly where I’m going, and it’s nowhere fast

Although perhaps it’s somewhere spectacular gradually

That’s my only rationale for rolling proactively

So I’m actually happier with the speed of a tortoise

‘Cause if I was growing massively by the moment, I wouldn’t have

The freedom to focus on my vocab and sculpt a masterpiece

Someone told me to believe in myself, but I needed

A reason, because I couldn’t see for myself

So I teach myself and increase my skills

And I’ll believe when I see results

My faith is unshakable;

even when the indicators

Of immanent failure are unmistakable

I’m simply incapable of letting my faith go

Some say I won’t make it, but what the hell do they know?

I’m so dedicated that no one can take control

Of my fate, so even when I’m in the danger zone

I still feel like I’m safe at home, so I’m always protected

All perspectives that contradict mine are strongly rejected

I’m like a fundamentalist contemplating the fossil record

Explaining Intelligent Design to a biology professor

I understand my faith well enough not to question it

For a starving artist that’s just a prerequisite

‘Cause I can see direct evidence with my own eyes

That says my chance of success is like throwing dice

And getting consecutive snake eyes forty times

That’s why the only truth I accept is the one I know inside

Someone told me to believe in myself, but I needed

A reason, because I couldn’t see for myself

So I teach myself and increase my skills

And I’ll believe when I see results

With an eye to the future and a fist to the wheel

And a gun to the head and the man in the mirror

And the visions you see is the molding you made

And the prisons you feel are as sharp as a blade

Got a knife to the throat of those that’re paid

Just wandering the streets just looking for shade

You’ve never done an honest day’s work and it shows

You got shit in your smile and a shine in your clothes

Bloated and fat and coated in wasted tattoos

You’re day old news lies as flat as your shoes

Dreams are torn shattered born battered and bruised

Shorn from the sheep all matted and used

You glimmer and glitter and tease

Get a glimpse of the truth and still do as you please

With your shiny suits your polished nails

Your cheating heart your eyes all malice and blackmail

Your violent breath and your soapbox stare

Your cold thin grin and your hopeless soul

And your clothes that smell of mothballs always old

Hot don’t stick to cold oh so thin hold

On the thin line between the incline and decline

Long way down drop in to free fall

Your sins unraveling hands that won’t stand

And be counted hammer hits down goes the gavel

Someone told me to believe in myself, but I needed

A reason, because I couldn’t see for myself

So I teach myself and increase my skills

And I’ll believe when I see results

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