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akira the don - someone like that lyrics

don’t waste the rest of your time
worrying about other people
unless it affects the common good
it will keep you from doing anything useful
rob you of something
you’ll be too preoccupied
with what so+and+so’s doing
and why
what they’re saying
what they’re thinking
what they’re up to and why
and every thought of the kind
it keeps you from focusing
on your own mind
on your own mind

you must avoid certain things
in your train of thought
everything random
everything irrelevant
over+curious
or malicious
you must habituate yourself
so if anybody says
hey!
what you thinking about?
you can answer right at once
with the truth:
this or that
and it’s obvious from that
your thoughts were
kind and considerate
straightforward and benevolent
the thoughts of a social being
unconcerned with anything
like pleasure or indulgence of any kind at all
with squabbling
with slander and envy
and nothing more
you’d be ashamed to say out loud
nothing you’re ashamed to say out loud

someone like that
who refuses to put off
joining the elect
is something like priest
a servant of the gods
in touch with what’s within him
and with what
keeps a person undefiled by pleasures
someone like that
unscathed by any pain
untouched by any wrong
unconscious of no wickedness
a wrestler in the greatest contest of all
the struggle not to be
overwhelmed by anything
that happens at all

dyed deep with justice
accepts with all of his soul
everything which happens
and whatever he’s assigned
not paying any mind
unless undeniably necessary at the time
to what another says
does or thinks
for he only has his
own
work
to realize
and keeps continually in mind
what’s assigned
to him from the whole
does his best
trusting that all is for the best
for we carry our fate with us
and it carries us along with it
he keeps in mind
that all rational beings are related
and that to care
for all human beings
is part of being human
which doesn’t mean
we have to share
any of their opinions
we should listen only
to those whose lives conform to nature
as for the others?
he keeps in mind
what sort of people they are
both at home and abroad
by night as well as day
who they choose
to defile themselves with
he cares nothing for their praise
men not even acceptable
to their own selves
he cares nothing for their praise
men not even acceptable
to their own selves
someone like that
who refuses to put off
joining the elect
is something like priest
a servant of the gods
in touch with what’s within him
and with what
keeps a person undefiled by pleasures
someone like that
unscathed by any pain
untouched by any wrong
unconscious of no wickedness
a wrestler in the greatest contest of all
the struggle not to be
overwhelmed by anything
that happens at all

- akira the don lyrics

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