If Life gives you a knife
Look all out for the wisest wood
Say, if Life gives you a knife
Look all out for the wisest wood
Let the whetstone lend you its sharpest wit
Put the forest in the craftiest mood
If Life gives you a leaking raft
Mend it up with your sunniest smile
Say, if Life gives you a leaking raft
Mend it up with your sunniest smile
History hardly ever remembers the gap
Between the futile foot and the looming mile
We sometimes measure the sea
With a bowl from the desert’s kitchen
Yes, we sometimes measure the sea
With a bowl from the desert’s kitchen
There is no lesson here and beyond
That is absolutely strange to Life’s teaching
The tortoise’s legs are short
The giraffe knows not what to do with its won
See? The tortoise’s legs are short
The giraffe knows not what to do with its own
One person’s pool is another’s puddle
The flesh pays its tribute to
The kingdom of the bone
Durogii, ore*
Think before you talk
Ani, durogi, ore
Think hard before youtalk
If your tongue is faster than your brain
You may run before you ever walk
*Pause awhile, friend
and then