Set people
We can choose to be destroyers or nitpickers instead of builders
Fall under the guise of social pressures
Thinking we must adhere to certain measures
Choose someone to be mean to who bothers you, just for fun
Pretend there’s a reason to point your gun.
And we hate it
We fate it
Yet we hate it
We create it
Yet we hate it.
We create it.
Yet if it were you, you were doing it to…
It would hurt you.
Letting yourself succumb to a
Heart that acts numb.
Be mean, just for fun.
And the older I get
I can see the ridiculous ways adults rationalize doing this to me:
(And it’s not just me)
She’s bossy, she’s annoying, her voice, she’s polarizing, she’s negative, she’s depressed,
She’s obsessed, she’s too much, she’s annoyed when you don’t listen to her, she spoke out of turn, she said no, she thinks she knows better than you, she thinks she knows everything: even though that’s what she studied in school, she’ll get mad if I change things, she thinks she sounds good when she sings. attention whore, nothing more. She’s thinks she smarter than me. She has such vanity, she’s so weird and acts odd socially, she’s just crazy…
And
In all fucking honesty
I hope I never do this to you: from me.
I made a decision a long ago
A little wink: I am aware, I so know
The subtle shade one can throw
About a person and the things they don’t know
I don’t buy it
I’ll defy it:
Try it.
Try standing your ground.
Make a riotous sound
When people question you saying things like:
“These are set people”
Uh…Nothing is set people
do it anyway
Who cares what they say…
When someone tries to change your desire
Raise a fire
State it clear
They’ll hear what they want to hear.
Doesn’t matter: State it clear.
You belong here.
When one person questioned everything you do
The other presented your windows like you didn’t know what you were gonna do
And subtle “bless her heart” ways they talk about you.
Making your friend with an innocent heart: not know what to do.
Shine through
The only one who can control you:
Is you.
And for the ones who believed in you.
Keep them close to you.
And any other ones that didn’t, you did nothing wrong
Manipulative gossip is just part of their song.
Pretending to be the type who says we get along.
Am I wrong?
Pretend it doesn’t hurt me
Or whomever else their negative eyes see…
Could’ve just believed in me.
I’ve decided: when it comes time for you do things that are hard and scary to do:
I’m going to audibly believe in you.
Not question everything you do.
Because that’s what decent people do.
And in your victory,
I will make it about you: not me.
That’s the person I am and choose to be.
Just try and change me.
The beauty: most people are like me.
And thank them from the bottom of me.
For helping me.
I love them, and who they’ve chosen to be.
Let the others be.
They don’t really know me.
So, I’ll Let them be
They’re trying their best.
Even though I did get second-guessed.
I guess, they’re trying their best.
