Take a look around

The sights and the sounds

All the phases you've been through

All the places you've been to

All the people you meet

The time spent with your feet on the street

All the curses and blessings

You need to learn from these lessons

Lesson one, you gotta trust yourself

Cos that's where trust and love starts

It all sparks within, and what sparks the flint?

It sits with your Dad and your Mum when they instil it in your heart

And if they can't, then it's a struggle just to live well

You can't trust yourself, you can't trust someone else

There's no love without trust, ask Billy Joel

And life's not the same without a love to behold, it's cold

Take a look around

The sights and the sounds

All the phases you've been through

All the places you've been to

All the people you meet

The time spent with your feet on the street

All the curses and blessings

You need to learn from these lessons

Lesson two, never stop learning

A know-it-all can never know that all is eternity

And you know that I know you know more than you think

Cos to think is to know you don't know shit

No shit, you need to take that in

Your mind is like a car you need to break that in

Take it for a spin man, keep the wheels turning

And keep the fire of passion forever burning

Lesson three, don't listen to me

Don't listen to them, it's ultimately written within

Every thing you're told, take with a grain of salt

So many live by bullshit til they're grey and old

We must evolve, and it's gonna find a way

So if you wanna just stay, then the world can leave you rotten and decayed

For real, pick yourself up and move along

Bruss you ain't 'nuss' but dust when you're gone, c'mon!

Take a look around

The sights and the sounds

All the phases you've been through

All the places you've been to

All the people you meet

The time spent with your feet on the street

All the curses and blessings

You need to learn from these lessons

Lesson four, less is more

The most literally applicable of metaphors

Drop the clutter and relieve your nervous sweaty pores

We on our own backs like a creditor

Meditate, yes meditate in any form

Smoke a joint, drink a beer on your step or porch

Take a drive to nowhere with the pedal floored

And your stereo shaking all the metal doors

Lesson five, thank F you're alive

Thank yourself for that gift, thank the ground and the sky

Thank circumstance, thank the longest of odds

That you formed from cells on this prosperous rock

Thank the oceans, the desserts, thank the jungle

Be thankful for the chance to be thankful and humble

The world don't owe you a motherfuckin thing

So give thanks for this ultimate gift (your goddamn life)

Take a look around

The sights and the sounds

All the phases you've been through

All the places you've been to

All the people you meet

The time spent with your feet on the street

All the curses and blessings

You need to learn from these lessons