Imitation Always Fails

Listen to yourself imitation always fails
Don't listen to yourself character prevails
If you must pretend then I must beware
For not all are friends who who speak to you fair
I'm a night creature I got all the right features
And I don't need a teacher cause I got an inner preacher
There's plenty of time but you don't want to unwind
You're afraid what you'll find swimmin round in your mind
On closer inspection you can see it's a lie
Cause you want the resurrection but you don't want to die

Imitation Always Fails

It Takes a long time to fully realise
When they're messin with your mind
And when they're tellin you lies
It's identification by association
For the procreation of alienation
They make it sound good they make it sound right
But they don't have to live the rest of your little life
I don't need to feel sexy cause my mind it protects me
So that culture can't vex me then pretend that it accepts me
Cause I got the power the power to choose
So I put it to use to avoid the abuse

Imitation Always Fails

Everybody's mopin cause society is gropin
But there's no sense in hopin if your eyes aren't open
They called me a dreamer when I was in school
Now my dreams are still alive I ain't nobody's fool
I was the only one in my class and they said I would not pass
I wasn't there to learn fast cause I'm here to last
I got high expectations for all situations
And it gives me frustrations but it has it's occasions
When I'm alone I don't need to speak
Cause I'm close to the bone I know just what I mean

Imitation Always Fails

Everybody hears voices and we all make choices
But the world rejoices when the heart makes noises
It's the same in every land so learn this if you can
It's always the simple man who is the hardest one to understand
It only hurts when I laugh and they laugh when I hurt
But you won't find my path printed on a t shirt
So here's an advertisement calling all wise men
Open up your eyes man you're bein sterilised
You was made in the image but the job ain't finished
It don't matter what your sin is when your love is diminished
I don't need to progress I don't need to achieve
I don't want my success to be normality
Cause I'm persuaded not faded can't be infiltrated
Sedated mutated by the sophisticated
Cause I know what I like and I like what I know
And there's no good music on the radio

Imitation Always Fails

copyright Michael Bennett 2017