"To bloom the brighter as my hair turns grey"

Eccentric

When they asked me what I wanted to be
When I grew up back when I was a kid
I answered them unhesitatingly
That my destiny seemed quite plain to me
To be eccentric (whatever I did)

And as it seemed then so it is today
I turned out something like I thought I would
Eccentric if not insane all the way
But the lotus unfolded as it should
To bloom the brighter as my hair turns grey

So who's to say eccentric isn't good?
The further you float from society
And the less you care about what "they" say
The easier it becomes to break free
And make your own rules for this game you play

Your own game which no one has played before
And if no one else understands the rules
Soon enough you won't need them anymore
Whatever you do don't be like those fools
With no sense of absurdity at all

Now that to me would be insanity
I'd rather be a lotus in the fall
Being eccentric (whatever I do)
Unfolding as I should but I might see
If maybe I could find a friend like you

+Steven Curtis Lance



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