Beginner’s Mind

　　
　　Hold on tight Beginner’s Mind
　　The wheel is spinning too
　　Fast to make your move
　　The worst must be assumed
　　Oh how they will try
　　To pull and to pry
　　Away what you know now
　　Beat and beat it out
　　Leave a drum that makes no sound
　　
　　A snuff film on a JumboTron for all the world to see
　　
　　A cocktail napkin epitaph
　　A psychobabble telegram
　　Message written in the sand
　　The tide rolls in
　　
　　Swear you’ll do the opposite
　　Of all those tangled hypocrites
　　Who say that the experiment has failed
　　Don’t go there
　　You’re getting nowhere
　　You’re getting nowhere
　　
　　Stay awhile my Inner Child
　　I’d like to learn your trick
　　To know what makes you tick
　　To nurse you when you’re sick
　　Oh how you’ve grown so cynical
　　Hard lines carved in your face
　　The sunshine is so cliché
　　Just like love and pain
　　
　　You tried your best on the Rorschach test
　　but there is just nothing to see
　　
　　Heard terabytes of perfect pitch
　　Some universal elegance
　　Stack the seventh and the fifth
　　Along the grid
　　
　　Swear you’ll be the opposite
　　Of all those stilted hypocrites
　　You know what made you infamous to them, don’t you?
　　You keep starting over
　　You keep starting over
　　You keep starting over
　　You keep starting over
　　
　　Hold on tight Beginner’s Mind
　　The current is far too strong
　　It will carry you along
　　Till you’re just like everyone
　　Stay awhile my Inner Child
　　I’d like to learn your trick
　　To know what makes you tick
　　To nurse you when you’re sick