Current mood: cheerful

Current music: Ralph Stanley: Joking Henry

a little clarity from Everclear

I was listening to some music the other day after read Galations and thought about this passage when the song was playing:

“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:2, ESV)

EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE

You put yourself in stupid places.

Yes, I think you know it’s true.

Situations where it’s easy to look down on you.

Think you like to be the victim.

Think you like to be in pain.

I think you make yourself the victim

Almost every single day.

You do what you do.

You say what you say.

You try to be everything to everyone.

You know all the right people.

You play all the right games.

You always try to be everything to everyone.

Yeah, you do it again.

You always do it again.

You say they taught you how to read and write.

Yeah, they taught you how to count.

I say they taught you how to buy and sell

Your own body by the pound.

I think you like to be the simple toy.

I think you love to play the clown.

I think you are blind to the fact that

The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down.

You do what you do.

Yeah, you say what you say.

You try to be everything to everyone.

You know all the right people.

You play all the right games.

You always try to be everything to everyone.

Spin around and fall down.

Do it again.

Yeah, you stumble and you fall.

Yeah, why won’t you ever learn?

Spin around and fall down.

Do it again.

Yeah, you stumble and you fall.

I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

Yeah, why won’t you ever learn?

Come on, do that stupid dance for me.

Ooh, yeah.

You do what they tell you to.

You say what they say.

You try to be everything to everyone.

Yeah, you jump through the big hoops.

You play all the right games.

You try to be everything to everyone.

Spin around and fall down.

Do it again.

You stumble and you fall.

Yeah, you do it again.

Spin around and fall down.

Do it again.

You stumble and you fall.