The Effort - Tips and Directions [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

While your heart sleep in your chest
My sleeve is pounding loud
While your heart sleep in your chest
My sleeve is pounding loud

While your heart sleep in your chest
My sleeve is pounding loud
And that's why I raise my fist
I've got to let all the words come out
I have been second guessing all of the rest
Trying to understand what is all really about
Don't bother singing along if the strength
Doesn't come from deep inside your heart
These words are more than just a song
They're the spark from which a fire should start

Twenty years ago I was a little boy
Unaware of the shifts I could make
And I had no idea how to enjoy my own life
With the roads I would take
With the roads I would take
But someone gave me a tip
When I was stopping for directions
He told me, he said
"This is it
So stop looking for perfection"

I want more
I want to be the new beat for our generation
Lost in my words
We could ditch destruction
And lead the life of contemplation
Bodhisattvas of the 1950s killed their own convictions
And lost their minds but did we learn
For their self annihilation?