Passion's a Commodity

Does Jerry really sound good
or is he just supposed to?

Are breaking down the doors of life

or doing it all like we're supposed to do?

It's destined. It's chosen.

Well up is down and left is right,

there's peace from war

but peace is worth a fight.

It's backwards. It's forwards.

Tis better to have loved and lost

than never to have loved at all.

But loving love will break ya down -

10 feet high to 1 foot tall.

It's lovely. It's lonely.

I don't know what you're doing.

I don't know what I'm doing.

I don't know what we're doing

but we're doing it anyway.

I don't know where you're going.

I don't know where I'm going.

I don't know where we're going

but we'll go there anyway.

Does education educate

or is it really just the time?

Does poetry still captivate

if blunted with the silly rhymes?

It's learning. It's living.

Silken suited toupee'd men

will wow you with their wild wit.

But the callused hands-ed philosophers

need no silver shovel to dig it.

It's thinking. It's building.

Passion, passion,

levels it all the same.

It's that red hot fire that heats the brand

that singes on the name.

It's heating. It's beating.

I won't know what you're doing.

I won't know what I'm doing.

I won't know what we're doing

but we'll do it anyway.

I won't know where you're going.

I won't know where I'm going.

I won't know where we're going

but we'll go there anyway.

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Passion's a commodity,

bought and sold like jewelry.

Advertised and supervised,

scored and measured, criticized.

Passion is a luxury,

hoarded by the well-to-be.

Boarded, gated, manipulated,

monopolized, and well inflated.

It's passion. Just passion.

Passion's a commodity,

treasured loves and certainty.

Final stands, gestures grand,

rivers crossed, and bridges spanned. 

Passion is a luxury,

priceless value, somehow free.

Investigated, innovated,

grown and gathered, instigated.

It's passion. Just passion.

Couldn't tell you what we did.

Couldn't tell you where we went.

Couldn't tell you many things

about the time that we spent.

Couldn't tell you what we did.

Couldn't tell you where we went.

Couldn't tell you many things

but I'd do it all again.