X(yz+1): Take the road without the footprints, open doors they said were closed, climb the hill they never climbed, just to see how far it goes. You might stumble, you might lose, you might come back bruised and burned, but better scars from your own road, than a life you never earned.
DON’T FOLLOW THE HERD:
They’ll tell you where the road goes,
They’ll tell you where it ends,
They’ll show you all the footprints
And say, “Just follow them.”
They’ll hand you their directions,
Like they know where you belong,
But a thousand people walking there
Can still be walking wrong.
There’s comfort in the crowd,
There’s shelter in the noise,
But sooner or later every soul
Has gotta make a choice.
Don’t follow the herd,
Just because they know the way,
Don’t trade the fire inside you
For the things they want you to say.
Let ’em laugh, let ’em talk,
Let ’em tell you you’re absurd
There’s a whole wide world beyond the fence,
Don’t follow the herd.
Maybe somebody tried it,
Maybe somebody fell,
Maybe every voice around you
Has a failure story to tell.
But their ending ain’t your ending,
Their ceiling ain’t your sky,
And you’ll never know what waits for you
If you never even try.
You can borrow someone’s warning,
You can listen to their words,
But you weren’t born to spend your life
Just moving with the herd.
Don’t follow the herd,
Just because they know the way,
Don’t trade the fire inside you
For the things they want you to say.
Let ’em laugh, let ’em talk,
Let ’em tell you you’re absurd
There’s a whole wide world beyond the fence,
Don’t follow the herd.
The herd ain’t always friendly
To the ones who choose to leave,
Nothing makes a crowd more nervous
Than somebody who won’t believe
That safety means surrender,
That different means you’re wrong
Sometimes standing all alone
Is where you learn how strong you are.
Take the road without the footprints.
Open doors they said were closed.
Climb the hill they never climbed
Just to see how far it goes.
You might stumble, you might lose,
You might come back bruised and burned
But better scars from your own road
Than a life you never earned.
DON’T FOLLOW THE HERD,
When your heart says turn away,
You weren’t given your own two feet
To walk somebody else’s way.
Let ’em laugh, let ’em talk,
Let ’em say you’ll never learn
Every trail that changed the world
Started with somebody who turned.
Don’t follow the herd,
Don’t disappear into the crowd,
If you’ve got a different song inside
Then damn it, sing it loud.
No map.
No crowd.
No guarantee.
Just your road…
And the nerve to see
Where it leads.
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