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Fetal Crunch


this may be just a hunch
but you seem in a fetal crunch

get up off the floor
come down from your shelf
if you want to be happy
you've got to start with yourself

people don't need wings to fly
just a peaceful heart
that is what life's all about
and where we must start

it's a choice we make inside
to run to hate to cling to fear
or to believe that love's alive
and waiting everywhere

holding on to yesterday
is how to make fear grow
the secret to a peaceful heart
is found in letting go

if you want to enjoy lunch
get out of the fetal crunch

get up off the floor
come down from your shelf
if you want to be happy
start with yourself

something we all know
but sometimes we forget
and then when we remember
we learn how to regret
and then if we still linger
in guilt and self-pity
whatever we look at
looks pretty - well, what rhymes with pity
some might say New York City
but in truth if we wallow long
everything looks shitty

so trust your friends when they tell you
your head is in the sand
when a friend kicks you in the butt
it's just to lend a hand
who else will be there when you fall
to pick you up again
to snap you out of your malais
that's the "job" of a friend...

no matter what it takes
no matter the mistakes
when you doubt the intentions
of the attempts a friend makes
you test how much the caring
is daring to risk more
the friend who risks losing the friend
is a friend to the core
that's what a friend is for

consistency in deed is at the core
of whatever is true
and that might not be the same
for me or you or you

so read the words and choose the lies
and ask for love again
and pretend everything's alright
because you count to ten

the only ones you're fooling are
those who want to be fooled
life is a composition book
unwritten and unruled

if your panties are in a bunch
get out of the fetal crunch

get up off the floor
come down from your shelf
if you want to be happy
stop feeling sorry for yourself

and we could be wrong about everything
but here's a truth on which I depend
it's when you find a peaceful heart
that you can find a friend
then you can be a friend



Fetal Crunch
(A Friend's Song)

Ric Candor    ©1999


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