Good & Evil

There are two ways in life: Good and Evil And every choice reveals you Growing up, if we are lucky We learn the truth about evil and good We learn that wrong is not right And that some things we shouldn't And some things we should Here is the problem, it is not always So clear in the messages that we receive And the fear that presents itself Loves to deceive all our senses Until we believe the appearances As a result in our lives, problems Surface and complicate our sanity And so we develop completely inadequate Thoughts and perceptions of reality It is imperative we can distinguish Between good and evil so we can extinguish The thoughts and perceptions that compromise choices If not we might as well relinquish our voices Here we are again, it's so hard to tell Is this the road to heaven or the path to hell Opposites are calling, fighting for your mind And the choice is yours what will you decide Here we are again, it's so hard to tell Is this the road to heaven or the path to hell Opposites are calling, fighting for your mind And the choice is yours what will you decide Evil is all about my toys Shouting so you can hear my voice Good is the norm, brother, life, joy Helping us block out the white noise Diversity, purity, sympathy, empathy Happy prosperity, creative energy Honesty, decency Truly the reason we struggle together This human endeavor is never quite easy The suffering we see can make us so queasy And sometimes we turn To alcohol, ridicule, soon you feel pretty cool Giving up every hope and concern This is the evil way, don't care what people say No, you just turn away, follow the greed Spending your hours devouring power And killing the flower to nurture the weed Evil is easy, evil is obvious Evil is sinister, decadent, ominous Evil will rape, murder, pillage for opulence Brushing its teeth as it slaughters the populace Then again goodness can be evil too Cause it's not what you think, it's about what you do Positive thinking is not quite enough You can wish for the best as the worst calls your bluff Here we are again, it's so hard to tell Is this the road to heaven or the path to hell Opposites are calling, fighting for your mind And the choice is yours what will you decide Here we are again, it's so hard to tell Is this the road to heaven or the path to hell The choices we make create the world we live in And they define us What are the choices that define you Step over your brother or lend him a hand Give up on your dreams or come up with a plan Step into your wisdom or idolize youth Deceive what you grieve or give into the truth Nurture the forest or burn down the city Pick yourself up or give into self-pity Forgive and forget or vindictively vicious Simple and kind or malign and malicious Every day in every nation We have to struggle with endless temptation Will we abstain or follow the crumbs We pay to succumb, when we pray overcome Evil will only turn into more evil And goodness will only perpetuate good What it comes down to is kindness to people And what would you change if you could Here we are again, it's so hard to tell Is this the road to heaven or the path to hell Opposites are calling, fighting for your mind And the choice is yours what will you decide Here we are again, it's so hard to tell Is this the road to heaven or the path to hell After all, what really matters in life Not money, not things, not our lifestyle or Our work or our convictions But just where and how far we shift the border Between good and evil during our time here