Akira The Don, Anthony Bourdain - Be Humble lyrics

I've been free to do whatever I want
To make the shows I want anywhere
I want with whom I want in any style I want
So I, at first I don't know any other way
And by now I won't have it any other way
Life is good why settle for less?

Be open to experience
Be willing to try new things
Don't have a rigid plan except random acts
Of hospitality without judgment or fear
Don't be afraid to wander
Don't be afraid to eat a bad meal you know
If you don't risk the bad meal
You'll never get the magical one
But I think most important

Be humble, bе grateful, be humble
Bе grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble
Be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble
Be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful

Before I started traveling I thought that
The human race as a whole
Will turn on it'self at any moment
You know, venal, petty, cruel, arbitrarian
And it's true that all of those
Things exist in this world, but
I meet mostly pretty nice people
Doing the best they can, often under very
Very difficult conditions
I met a lot of very
Nice people who've done very
Very bad things that conflict with
My deeply held conceptions of
Justice and sexual equality or acceptable
Practice or religious views
There are a lot of gray areas in travel
But I think that on balance the world is
Filled with people doing the best they can
You know? The best they can, you know?

Be humble, be grateful, be humble
Be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble
Be grateful, be humble, be grateful
Be humble, be grateful, be humble
Be grateful

I've been fired many times
During my cooking career
I was not a particularly good chef
I had a lot of problems at various
Parts of my career with narcotics you know
I accepted failure as a chef because I
Was at various times a bad chef
And even a bad person
These days if I fail it's because I try
To do something and did not succeed
Or I just was just was not able to do
What I hoped to do or wanted to do
But I would much rather that
I would much rather fail gloriously than
Not try i’m not interested in telling
Stories with competence
I’m looking at telling 'em with some
Style and originality and some creativity