Unlearning

Oh it starts from Sharma and starts from
Co
And slowly trickles up to the brain until your core is rotten filth
And you're not where you want to be

It breaks apart your mores and ways until you're feeling in need of books
From childhood that taught you how to say please sorry and thank you

It makes its mark upon your past until you're wincing at every part
And going back is like a dance across a unsurveyed minefield

It's finally coming to terms with how nobody taught you to be human
You had to learn the hard way and you're still learning
Nobody told you why it was wrong
You had to join the dots while they were screaming in your face
Please kids
Why can't we play nice

Badness is inherited from where you go and who you meet but it's never too late to kill it
Badness won't go overnight and sometimes it steals things for good
But it's worth the effort to kill it

Wanna be told what to do to be better
But I don't know if I know how to be better
And what if I mess up trying to be better
Just tell me I'm doing good trying to be better

Wanna be told what it means to be better
But maybe life doesn't want me to better
And what if they're sick of me trying to be better
Just let me be better please

Every cringeworthy memory loops around your mind
I know
I know
How could I forget

Every slip up comes back to haunt you in the night
I know
I know
I want to repent

But your time machine is broken and you don't know how to fix it
And you try to keep your head in the present but you're still nowhere near grounded
And with nothing else to cling to you find solace in TV mantras

Laugh hard my friend
And don't you ever start sulking

Run fast my friend
And don't you ever stop running

Be kind my friend
And don't you ever half-ass it

I let you go
I let you finally ascend

Still don't know what I can do to be better
But I still want to find out how to be better
And yet if I mess up trying to be better
I'll still keep on trying so hard to be better

Still can't be told what it means to better
But I still hope life wants me to be better
And yet if they're sick of me trying to be better
I'll prove them wrong one day show them that I'm better

Still don't know what I can do to be better
But I still want to find out how to be better
And yet if I mess up trying to be better
I'll still keep on trying so hard to be better

Still can't be told what it means to better
But I still hope life wants me to be better
And yet if they're sick of me trying to be better
I'll prove them wrong one day show them that I'm better