#45 The Earth Keeps Moving

Any fool, or any dunce

Can, if they try, make the world stop once.

To make the world see them, to make the world know

That this fella right here is a guy who's gonna grow



It's not too hard, doesn't require too much invention

To make the world make you the centre of attention

Make it acknowledge that, hey, you exist

Isn't that nice, now wont you be missed?



Only, if you've stopped the world, it's a dangerous game to play

As the world respins and curls, commences creating the day

The intertia, might just knock you off your feet

In the type of experience you might not wish to repeat



See now you're behind, trying to catch the world again

But you've had your time, it's just not the same

It knows who you are, now does it really care?

You'd have to go so far, and no it's not fair.



Last time, you took the world by surprise,

And in it's shock it managed to look you in your eyes,

But all it saw was a fool or a dunce.

Who had their moment, and made the world stop once.



However, that's really not the point of this rhyme.

The real trickster can stop the world a second time.

Stop the spinning of this great ball of rock

For the second time to halt both hands on the clock



To have the courage, conviction, creativity and class

To once again manage to stand on top of this planetary mass

So that, for a second time that the world sees you standing right there.

You see the second time you make the world stop, you also make it care.



Because any fool, or any dunce

Can if they try, make the world stop once

But that's not really the point of this advice

For it takes a genius, to make the world stop twice

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