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The Greatest Mistake (2014)

from Unreleased (2011​-​2014) by Zack de la Rouda

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“I don't know” are three of the globe's most potent words ever written.
It seems like when you're speaking 'em with your vocals
and can see there's room to grow, you increase the possibility of hopefulness.
We ain't gotta be convinced of nothingness to just
go with the flow of the river that we're floating in.
We could temper any weather once we could come together -
the question is if we're snowflakes in the blowing wind
or sown seeds, set in lines, kept in rows.
Ironic we can't see we got a role in life. Ra is calling us to glow bright
like a coal. I know y'all got fire stored up deep inside of your soul.
Like a totem pole or a beanstalk, let's stand up straight.
It's kinda hard to shape your destiny that you been handed, ain't it?
But that's not a reason to be half awake.
We're sleepwalking through our sweetest moments.

CHORUS:
Cause if we don't wanna change then we're always the same.
Y'all want to talk about missed opportunities? That'd be the greatest mistake.
Just don't hesitate. There's not a moment to waste. By the grace of God,
you gon' have to change a lot, or else you'll make the greatest mistake.

We may have a dream, but to make it happen in reality's another thing.
Gotta work hard like the team coach.
I've fallen off my wagon, set fire to it, still trying,
follow Zion from the mountain to the sea coast.
Let's heed the omens that unfold; the spirits gonna tell us where to go,
if you have ears, let 'em ring. We need goals just get up out this hole,
if you have hands, dig 'em in, let us sing.
Mile O, gotta move forward.
Time don't stop tick-tocking, gotta grind till the sun up.
Climb to the top and you gon' find no wonder;
they got rhyme and reason locked up in the sky. Bah, humbug.
If everything is gon' come, what you gon' do?
Get up out the doldrums. Roll through the tollbooth.
Face facts; always say and ask for the whole truth.
Chuck what they sold you. Fuck what they told you.

CHORUS

If we're guilty till innocence is proven then I'm into self-improvement
but I never met a plan that was foolproof, cause for a sure shift
it can't be a short shrift. What do you do when the court is the culprit?
Said, are we more fit for the dirt or for the pulpit?
Pick from the fork in the road quick. I took a hard look at
the world figures and said, “Oh, shit, the ship is gonna sink and it's hopeless,”
and what this means is, we gon' have to be what we need
as far as lifeboats, dig? On that middle-of-the-night-flare-light-type tip,
people screaming and I'm thinking, “Christ, I might slip.”
Tight grip on the rope as we lower to the ocean;
head already swimming and my stomach getting so sick,
but I'm stuck still like a guard at my post.
I could never let go cause I made a change long ago.

CHORUS

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from Unreleased (2011​-​2014), track released September 25, 2013
produced by Cripla (twitter.com/CRIPLA)

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Zack de la Rouda Portland, Maine

i write songs and rap about weird stuff like love self-actualization civilization depression anarchism and taoism i like to eat from the garbage even though it's kinda hard to find organic stuff there i spend a lot of time alone somehow i am still releasing music ... more

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