Breaking of a Man

I know you've seen the breaking of a man You've taken all you can As if the house we made was made across the sand Oh lord, the penalty for suffering can seem so hard Dream in the days when everything's so dark Tried to walk good, where does that road start? Show... I, John, Thought exerciser, sought out to advise and add on I change the thinking you so proudly had on This mobilizing effort, It picks up from where the best of the best came and left it The treasure of truth I mix drinks within a booth That can't be measured with youth I break leaven with the seven, let whatever produce My past estranged the light, if change is right You can say the judge killed me, then I came to life A new-born, like a neophyte Fruitful love from the tree of life This is the letter I don't need to write Peace, Selah, bless the stars if I don't breathe the night If I don't save you from yourself, maybe Jesus might What I envision is better steady, Higher living from this system - though you dudes might be dead already I graduated from a school where the minds varied To hold a burden known to those that only time carries This cherry blossomer, martial artist studied the Ch'i Written on gossamer, tutored by philosophers demonstrably I deconstruct the sub-par and put 'em back together Like the monsters be How you want it? Obvious or subconsciously? If every man has his price, who sponsors me? You should do more than just drink responsibly See, even in the mountains, Lord, John was free As faith would have it, they would have me talking savage Like the average among us, and not confined to the youngest I'm like the magical healer / masterful builder I know the riddle of steel is in the hands of the wielder They tried to shatter my leader Do bad to the breather For living page twenty-seven from the Bhagavad Gita So when his time stopped Where he lay read "I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for what I'm not" You can't subtract logic, I put tulips on his grave And waxed philosophic to the words he gave Read my lips, "it's a new day running" And it ain't coming, 'cause it's here for the taking It's been years in the making I spent years in the station, waiting to make this entrance I'm here to free the world, young star. What's your intention? This is warfare, young'un Lighting is flashing down Tune in and let's see what's happening now One way or another it's going down