Exaggerate your flaws till they turn into virtues
Pretend your wounds are exotic tattoos
Refuse the gifts that infringe on your freedom
Shun sacred places that fill you with boredom

Keep in mind it's bad luck to be superstitious
The official story is always fictitious
Pump up your karma with idiot laughter
The promised land's here, not in some hereafter

Use your third eye to watch TV
Sing anarchist lullabies to lesbian trees
Think with your heart and feel with your head
Spit a mouthful of beer as far as you can

Kick your own ass and wash your own brain
Make fun of your fears and heal your own pain
Play games with no rules
Save your own life
Push your own buttons and be your own wife

We are searching for the answers,
so we can destroy them
and dream of better questions

When they say be yourself,
which self do they mean anyway?

Plunge butcher knives into accordions
Forgive yourself of all your mistakes except one
Commit funny crimes that don't break any laws
Shock yourself with how beautiful you are

Tell jokes to clowns
Cook feasts for chef
Sing songs to the birds and kill your own death
Mangle your anger, transform it to pleasure
Exploit your mistakes
and steal your own treasure

We are searching for the answers,
so we can destroy them
and dream of better questions

What do you swear
you'll never do again
as long as you live,
unless you can get away with it next time?

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Go wash some water
Mock your own hypocrisy

Go burn some fire
Brag about your perplexity

Go wash some water
Advertise your secrecy

Go burn some fire
Overthrow reality.

Go wash some water
Mock your own hypocrisy

Go burn some fire
Brag about your perplexity

Go wash some water
and advertise your secrecy



art by Jean-Michael Basquiat