God Forbid You Go Off Script

In your earliest years They'll tolerate your tears But you're on borrowed time You'll need bullet proof glass When in front of the class Casting pearls before swine Because sincerity, sincerity They'll beat it out of you Sincerity, Sincerity They'll beat it out of you This world so snide Don't want a look inside So you better close the drapes All your poetic tripe Set that trash alight And descend the fire escape Because sincerity, sincerity They'll beat it out of you Sincerity, Sincerity They'll beat it out of you But may you find yourself Earnest and elated At times, be they seldom and few Cuz even the remnants of sentiment have value Flippant scoffs and groans And sarcastic tones Will barrage past your lips Scantily fortified With such brittle pride God forbid you go off script Because sincerity, sincerity They'll beat it out of you Sincerity, Sincerity They'll beat it out of you But may you find yourself Earnest and elated At times, be they seldom and few Cuz even the remnants of sentiment have value They say the truth shall reveal itself when you're jaded and older That beauty lives and dies in the eyes of beholders That it's corruptive, corrosive and a curse on your health Better keep it locked up, keys tossed down a well They'll be trivializing the helm that you're manning They'll be stomping out all of the embers you're fanning They'll be siphoning your spirit and serving you the swill So if you're gonna fight 'em, prepare to die on that hill When the heavens seem so deafened you're tempted to unplug And apathy's abundant and abused like a drug May the hour be nigh for you to lean into will Cuz the best of men have always lived and died on that hill