The Road

First burst on this earth May 21st coughing like a hearse At his birth, Kevin thought he was cursed The first words that he heard Father turned to the nurse She said, "What's it all worth if we're hurting him worse?" But life doesn't always work out like it's supposed to Like bread doesn't pop when you watch the toaster Used to say he'd be a star supernova Running round school with a super soaker Head full of cotton wool, never learned a lot at school Pocket full of holes and a belly full of rocket fuel But he never missed a shot at pool So he thought he had a shot at keeping his pockets full While I played hip-hop, Kevin learned trick shots Heard he got rushed outside of a chip shop Years later saw him at one of our shows And asked about the path he chose There's a road. There's a path you have to follow Forget your yesterdays and see tomorrow It's just that fear that keeps you here It's just the sum of all these misspent years Thomas showed promise from the day he first dropped in An honest lad, flown away at four to the Promised Land Where he learnt more than the gift of gab He learnt to chirps and chat Spanish see and that's speaking modestly Tom was an oddity, mind lost in the ether Brightest of the sparks but lazy, baffled all his teachers Only watched the trailers, and got bored with the features Used to hang with Steve until God collared him the preacher Now following this rhyme-like timelines We descend on two scenes, two separate lives The result of two dreams with stars in their eyes Where one went blind and the other he saw sight But which one is which, shit it's hard to find I guess the moral of the story is life's a bitch, stick to your grind Just remember that you can't rewind And you reap what you sow in kind There's a road. There's a path you have to follow Forget your yesterdays and see tomorrow It's just that fear that keeps you here It's just the sum of all these misspent years There's a road. There's a path you have to follow Forget your yesterdays and see tomorrow It's just that fear that keeps you here It's just the sum of all these misspent years There's a road. There's a path you have to follow Forget your yesterdays and see tomorrow It's just that fear that keeps us here It's just the sum of all these misspent years There's a road. There's a path you have to follow Forget your yesterdays and see tomorrow It's just that fear that keeps us here It's just the sum of all these misspent years