Learn To Swim Part II

Stay cool, learn to swim I only started learning last year, now I'm 42 And if you already know how to swim, good for you This is for all the people behind you Stay cool, learn to swim Nah, mate, you're not too heavy Your bones are not too dense Pennywise was right In the end, everyone floats Stay cool, learn to swim Your skin will thank you Your mind will thank you And if there's blood in the water Sharks will thank you Don't swim in the River Thames Nobody asked you to do that Some things will always be true The sun always sets in the west Right now will always be as good as it gets Romeo and Juliet is tragic Time is wasted on worrying And everyone is made of pure, unadulterated magic Except for Boris Johnson Trans men are men, trans women are women Some things by now should be a given It looks worse when it's online Facebook is not research no matter the hours you spent on it There are no solutions at the bottom of a doomscroll And you're never at your best When you are looking at someone else's highlight reel Time heals all wounds and makes new ones But a hot shower will cure 99 percent of bad vibes, trust me You should be nice to yourself You should be nice to people, except for Nazis No one should never be nice to Nazis There are so many ways to be yourself Just don't get lost in the options All the paper straws in the world won't save a single polar bear But making Amazon pay their proper taxes could And all your idols will let you down, except for Keanu Reeves Because Keanu Reeves is perfect You don't have to like Pink Floyd You don't have to like Prince None of it is by force Every elder is a village But some villages are full of racists And aren't worth the visit Protect your peace, cherish your joints Eat your fruits and vegetables and mind your business Don't be afraid to dress like an idiot at least once in your life Embrace your cringe, embrace your cringe New York is nice, but you should try Benin City If they won't let you start a union, join a mafia The means you cannot seize, you should steal If you love doing a thing, and you're not hurting anyone or yourself Do the thing, don't let anyone stop you doing the thing If you love shoplifting from department stores, do the thing Department stores aren't people Sometimes the answer is to sleep on it Sometimes you need to face it head on Sometimes it's scarier in your head, and when you stop running You realize the monster was a shadow all along Your heart will be broken And you will break hearts When the dust settles in your spirit Do not forget to forgive yourself Call all the friends you've fallen out with Tell them you miss them Dying right is overrated But that does not mean you should down a bottle of Merlot And text your former lover Nothing good will come from that Recognize the difference between alone and lonely More often than not, you won't resolve all loose ends Your life isn't that kind of movie It's more of a rambling soap opera That will eventually run out of budget And I hope you get old I hope when you get old, compassion is cool again And if you're lucky, one day you'll wake up And you'll be out of the zeitgeist eye And you won't recognize the music You'd rather go to bed at 10 Your pleasures will be gentler, your movements slow Your goalpost shifted, your former burdens slightly lifted And that's okay, it happens to most of us Maybe by then you would have stayed cool Maybe you'd could do something else with your life Like learn to swim