[ Oftentimes Your Mind Can Be Your Worst Enemy ]
[ You Try To Get Out Of Your Own Way ]
[ When Someone Tries To Get Friendly ]

[ You Start To Over Think ]
[ Even Before You Blink ]
[ But When You Are Pushed To Drink ]
[ You Feel Your World Sink ]

[ You Put Up Hurdles Right & Left ]
[ But After You’ve Slept ]
[ You Try To Carefully Watch Your Step ]

[ But Why? ]
[ You Keep Telling Yourself That You Are Not A Bad Guy ]
[ You Don’t Lie ]
[ When Someone Talks To You Eye-to-Eye ]

[ You Don’t Put Other People Down ]
[ In An Effort To Make Yourself Feel Bigger ]
[ You Don’t Walk Around Town ]
[ Trying To Make Others Shake Or Quiver ]

[ Some Men Go To Bars To Fill Up With Liquid Courage ]
[ Then They Don’t Act Their Age ]
[ When They Rant & Rage ]

[ But There Are Days When The Sun Settles Across The Land ]
[ It Feels Like You Have Spent The Day Walking Through Wet Sand ]

[ But When The Smoke Starts To Clear ]
[ You Will Not Be The One Shedding The Tear ]
[ But You Will Be The One That Has Nothing To Fear ]

[ It Took You Years ]
[ To Get Over Your Fears ]
[ But That’s Why You Set Such A Good Example For Your Peers ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

Aloha

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