For Those Who Must Come After

We arrive, it's said, on our different ways,

Marching to our different drumming.

We must trace the thread through the endless maze

On our journey of becoming.

There's a place and time that is right for you,

And you're the one who will make it.

The words will rhyme and the notes ring true.

Just play real cool when you fake it.

If your life's a bore, maybe you're no fun

And happy people avoid you.

If the fate in store is an empty one,

Then you're the lie that’s destroyed you.

If you don't respect yourself, you're probably right.

If you don't respect your friends, you're sleeping alone tonight

And you'll sleep alone forever, though there's bodies wall to wall.

'Til you find out you're somebody, no one's home if love should call.