Akira The Don - Grateful To The Gods lyrics

When you wake up in the morning
Tell yourself the people I deal with today
Will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant
 dishonest, jealous
And surly
They are like this cause they can’t
Tell good from evil
But I have seen the beauty of good
And the ugliness of evil
And have recognized that the wrongdoer has a
Nature related to my own

Not of the same blood or birth
But the same mind
And possessing a share of the divine
Not of the same blood or birth
But the same mind
And possessing a share of the divine

And so none of them can hurt me
No one can implicate me in ugliness


Nor can I feel angry at my relative
Or hate him we were born to work
Together like feet, hands, and eyes
Like the two rows of teeth upper and lower
To obstruct each other is unnatural
To feel anger at someone
To turn your back on him
These are obstructions yo

Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart

Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart

Whatever this is that I am, it
Is flesh, a little spirit, an intelligence
Throw away your books
Stop letting yourself be distracted
That is not allowed
Instead, as if you were dying right now
Despise your flesh!
A mess of blood, pieces of bone
A woven tangle of nerves, veins, arteries
Consider what the spirit is air
And never the same air
But vomited out and gulped
In again every instant

Finally the intelligence
Think of it this way you are an old man
Stop allowing your mind to be a slave
To be jerked about by selfish impulses
To kick against fate and the present
And to mistrust the future

What is divine is full of Providence
Even chance is not divorced from nature
From the inweaving and enfolding of things
Governed by Providence
Everything proceeds from it

And then there is necessity and the
Needs of the whole world
Of which you are a part
Whatever the nature of the whole does
And whatever serves to maintain it
Is good for every part of nature
The world is maintained by change
In the elements and in
The things they compose
That should be enough for you
Treat it as an axiom (Treat it as an axiom)

Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart

Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart

Oh! What a glorious thing
Waking up in the morning, baby oh!
What a glorious thing
Yes, I have a whole day! Hey! Oh!
What a glorious thing
Waking up in the morning, baby oh oh!
What a glorious thing
Yes, I have a whole day!

Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Discard your thirst for books
So you won’t die in bitterness
But in cheerfulness and truth
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart
Grateful to the gods from the
Bottom of your heart

Remember how long you’ve been
Putting this off
How many extensions the Gods gave you
And you didn’t use them
At some point you have to recognize what
World it is that you belong to
What power rules it and from
What source you spring
That there is a limit to
The time assigned to you
And if you don’t use it to
Free yourself it will be gone and will never
Return