Stories for Change
I’m one man and sometimes I can’t feel any smaller
A kid who gives his all but is done growing taller
Done with the world, wanting no more in life
Than to tear a hole in the sky and see what heaven looks like
See my trick of the trade tracks back to spoken word
Time to break it in break my shell break bad; Heisenberg
So here’s a cliché, albeit a true one
The first step to solve a problem is admitting there is one
I say question expectation, find convention to question
Maybe gender norms are actually a form of oppression
Or why are movies forgetting innovation for more dollars
And we see someone naked before knowing their favorite color
See I want to address the problems we accept and don’t acknowledge
We’re not thinking about the future—I mean, we’re busy with college
But we’re always plugged in, our brains are wired
If that’s our present then our future is the death of desire
Still I think a great future is in range
And I believe we can use stories to create change
To reach out touch the heart, and inspire the mind
Of an audience who takes it in and gives up their time
To architect the future, speak it word by word
The word to pay it back and pay it back and to pay it forward