Culture Clash: Episode 59

I actually strolled past an Asian man sitting in his car with the door closed and window down, reading some form of literature while a pair of black leather shoes lay nice and orderly on the curb just below him. I could only assume that the shoes were his own and it struck me as completely ludicrous that he would take his cultural traditions to such great lengths not only in this country, but anywhere else - including his own motherland! ...And this moment made me laugh... and consider how lucky I am to be so ignorant of other's circumstances. Oh, how - I - laughed.

Mind Your Own Business

Everyone says, "There's no business like show business." Really, Business? How about No Business!?! Now mind your own &*#@ing business! ...Business.

Fragmented Nation

Yeah, you might be special but, You don't know the American way.
One nation, under an unwelcome God, divided, and invisible to one another.
How many roads must a man walk before he is called a god?

Today I want to be a musician. You will call me a musician.
- "Do you know how to play?"
Doesn't matter. 'Cause after today,
I'll leave without a trace,
I'm not coming back for another 8 years.
You won't remember my face,
But the lyrics will wash your eyes with your tears.
- "We hate your sound. We hate your sound!
- Listen to yourself," they say, as they nash at me.
Shake hands in the light,
But they meet underground.
Secret plots in the night.
Still secretly gettin' bit in the backseat but it doesn't matter,
'Cause I'm six tracks in and still on the radio!

Wisdom was raped, that will not go unpunished.
Now the decay of Creation.
Now the debt of a fragmented Nation.

Relevant Times

Learnin' to learn as I discover the discovered.
And it's okay to want the prize waiting at the goal.
'Cause the Maker will make it so.
But if He doesn't still, there'll be something waiting though.
Yes, it just might be that there's something new for me and you somehow. Or maybe just me. Or maybe just you. Lonely never felt so lonely 'til now.
It's all gonna be foretold in retrospect.
Yes, faith can be known and deserves respect.
Just learnin' to learn as I discover the discovered...
The gift to my wandering soul.
But never forsake the truth of the artist's mistake...
Passion and talent changes the future, but does nothing to change the past. There is only Embraced and Forgotten.