Tending Two Shops
Don't run around this world
Looking for a place to hide in
There are wild beasts in every cave
If you live with mice
The cats claws will find you
The only real rest comes when you're alone with God
Live in the nowhere that you came from
Even though you have an address here
That is why you see thing in two ways
Sometimes you look at a person
And see a cynical snake
Someone else sees a joyful lover
And thing is
You might both be right
Everyone is half and half
Like the black and white ox
Joseph looked ugly to his brothers
You have eyes that see from that nowhere
And eyes that judge distances
How high, how low
You own two shops
And you run back and forth
Try to close the one that's a fearful trap
Getting always smaller
Checkmate this way
Checkmate that
Keep open the shop
Where you're not selling fishhooks anymore
You are the free swimming fish
Looking for a place to hide in
There are wild beasts in every cave
If you live with mice
The cats claws will find you
The only real rest comes when you're alone with God
Live in the nowhere that you came from
Even though you have an address here
That is why you see thing in two ways
Sometimes you look at a person
And see a cynical snake
Someone else sees a joyful lover
And thing is
You might both be right
Everyone is half and half
Like the black and white ox
Joseph looked ugly to his brothers
You have eyes that see from that nowhere
And eyes that judge distances
How high, how low
You own two shops
And you run back and forth
Try to close the one that's a fearful trap
Getting always smaller
Checkmate this way
Checkmate that
Keep open the shop
Where you're not selling fishhooks anymore
You are the free swimming fish
Credits
Writer(s): Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi
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