For Those Who Quit Without Ever Really Trying

You can’t despair until you’ve tried
You don’t get to
I won’t let you.

You’ll never know until you’ve tried
Really tried.

You won’t know love or life
Until you’ve sacrificed
Truly sacrificed.

You won’t know the truth from the rest
Until you put it to the test.

You’ll never know if miracles exist
If Heaven is real
Until you allow yourself to see and feel.

And as the clock ticks away
Taking more from you each day
You trade your hope for suicide.

Until all you’re left is hopelessness
All you’re left with is despair
Because you never ever dared.

You sold the stars for a Moon Pie.
Sold the world for a TV.
Sold your dreams for fantasies,
Forests for office furniture.
Sold your power to change for remote control,
Belief in the market for belief in your soul.

But you were never helpless
And in the end you’ll know
You chose this
You chose this.

You chose to be the observer
The complaining consumer
Leaving the theater,
Disappointed at the movie’s ending,
At everything ending.

You chose this
So that you could play the victim
In a really shitty play.

You’ll never know if paradise was possible.
You watched as the world died
And you never even tried.