VERSE - REL MCCOY:
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
off into the sunset, old spaghetti western
by then I'll be Catching blessings thru the good bad and ugly ride with it
Horse back, saddle pack, Stetson
matter fact, Back drop, real time street wide B side reppin
but still build with core fam yo east side connection
endure the pandemic still grow thru the roof, branch out bredgin
Global parker with the daily bugle worldwide webbing
While some will cast myriads or abstract netting
let's start with that plastic rap a sedentary danger
ala Great Pacific garbage patch
We farther ahead leave these kindergarten martyrs with their starter packs
Rel and less you know we part of that

CHORUS:
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 --

VERSE - MORE OR LES:
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.

CHORUS:
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.