Given

Written by Briyan Frederick Baker and Joe Maki
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© Briyan Frederick Baker and Joseph Alan Maki. All rights reserved.

Given

This all may simply be crazy
Pushbutton training and lazy
It may seem deferential and foolish
Until all your plans end up wasteful and useless

Don't you all realize
Where you stand you'll someday fertilize
You either lead or you'll be driven
Blah blah blah… that's just a given

Given, given, given, yeah
Given
Given, given, given
We all must face the times we live in
Given, given, given, yeah
Your life is just a given

You either move or you are moved on
Bulldozed over and improved upon
Technology always overtakes you
You better let your fate and its children forsake you

Given, given, given, yeah
Given
Given, given, given
We all must face the times we live in
Given, given, given, yeah
Your life is just a given

Smell the roses
But the thorns
Have a purpose
They adorn
Crowned and trampled
Underfoot
Left foresook
Misunderstood

Pushing forward ever forward
Beat the street and knife the cowards
There's little left here to inherit
Little to do but grin and bare it

Stale shablee to toast a future
Bereft of love after its sutured
You either lead or you'll be driven
Blah blah blah… that's just a given

Given, given, given, yeah
Given
Given, given, given
We all must face the times we live in
Given, given, given, yeah
Your life is just a given

It's just a given, yeah
It's just a given, yeah
YEAH, yeah yeah, yeah
Your life is just a given