Progress. Progress
Progress. Progress. Progress
For those who don't learn from life's wise lessons
Time will catch up and chop you at the knees like a sling blade I reckon
Progression, to me that's riding on these tracks like a legend
Into the sunset, old spaghetti western by then
I'll be catching blessings thru the good bad and ugly, ride with it
Horseback, saddle pack, Stetson
Matter fact, Back drop, real time street wide B side repping
But still build with core fam yo east side connection
Endure the pandemic still grow thru the roof, branch out bredren
Global Parker with the Daily Bugle worldwide webbing
While some will cast myriads or abstract netting
Naw, let's start with that plastic rap
A sedentary danger, a la Great Pacific garbage patch
We farther ahead leave these kindergarten martyrs with their starter packs
Rel and less you know we part of that
Progress to care less about people's judgements
Progress to think before you push people's buttons
Progress when you decide that as a grown man with a job
You should stop hitting fam for gwop, that's
Progress to stop saying "yes" to all things
Progress when you accept what the world brings
Progress in everyday life's there
Might be little bits and takes long. Not quite fair
Any little bit of ground gained dealing with our pain
Is a thing we can celebrate. But doing great
Is not a straight line, 'cause nobody's perfect
Experience provides lots'a tools y'all can use
Help you through. Tho we tie
Values to actions, 'cause we're meaning machines
So when things don't add up to what we see
As the proper outcome, we think "what can it mean
Are we screwed, defeated, 'bout done, giving up on?" Please
I'm not giving up on you - no need to give up on me
And let's not try to keep score - support the progress we see
In each other. Being individuals, we suffer from self-centeredness
But the start to setting this
Thing off called "improvement"? Well, that starts with you, kid
A few steps forward, then look back, you'll see there's movement
In oh-six, my doctor, dentist, accountant were heralded
Now it's my yoga teacher, naturopath and therapist
Progress to care less about people's judgements
Progress to think before you push people's buttons
Progress when you finally buy a dishwasher
To stop arguments about dishes with your partner
Progress to stop saying "yes" to all things
Progress when you accept what the world brings
Progress in everyday life's there
Might be little bits and takes long. Not quite fair
But that's progress
Progress. Progress
Progress. Progress. Yeah