You Don't Have To Be A Star

from Organized Shame by Drunken Choir

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Me I don't mean, anything to anyone
And I can write an anthem without a needle in my arm
Giving up everything is a lot easier to do
When all you have left is nothing left to lose
Listen to my words, listen to my pain,
I'm not some Brooklyn hipster with nothing real to say
I've lived in my own head more than you will ever know
Damned if I’m with people and damned if I’m alone

Whatever you are be a good one
You don't have to be a star
Wherever the wind may take you
be better than you are

Well it takes one to know one and I know that I’m not alright
It’s not a birthday party if it happens every single night
I've been drinking so much I would put hemingway to shame
But my nobel novel hasn't made it past the first page
I drink, drink, drink but the words just keep spinning around
And The chapter they leave out is that poets usually drown
In a pool of their own sorrow or a ditch by the side of road
Not a dollar to their name and a notebook full of words

Do what you love And love what you do
We're all six feet from the cold hard truth
That Life is a ride and we're already dead
That Earth is heaven and there is no hell
That this is it this is as good as it gets
It does not get any better than this

Whatever you are be a good one
You don't have to be a star
Wherever the wind may take you
be better than you are

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from Organized Shame, released July 15, 2014

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