All You Had To Do Was Believe


Should I take back those gifts that I gave you?
The ones you squandered and wasted
You didn’t take the world that was yours
You didn’t even bother to taste it
Hands in your pockets, eyes looking away
Not brave enough to have faced it

This is what you have done
This is what you could achieve
There exists no good reason
All you had to do was believe
This is the time remaining
There is the place to start
You know your time is waning
Go down and do your part

Don’t let me regret the power I bestowed
The power that you’ve disregarded
See the world, how it trembles and worries
Wondering if it has been discarded
Their eyes look up to our kingdom and fear
That they’ve been left unguarded

This is what you have done
This is what you could achieve
There exists no good reason
All you had to do was believe
This is the time remaining
There is the place to start
You know your time is waning
Go down and do your part


2-1-2003

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