Akira The Don, Douglas Murray - The Mob lyrics

I only desire the approval of a relatively
Small number of people who I respect
If they said to me, "I think
You're totally wrong on this, Douglas"
Then I'd listen
But when it's people who don't
Want me to do well
Then of course I don't listen to them
It's one of the tools we all
Have to hone in our lives
To work out who wants us to do well
Who wishes us well, and to listen to
Them, even if they're critical of us
And they will be at times
And to separate out those people
From the people who just
Of course they don't want you to do well
They hate you, they hate
Everything about you, and whatever
But I don't have much sympathy
With public figures who say


I can't say what I think, I can't speak up
And all this sort of thing
If you're not going to now
When are you going to?
If you're not going to in this life
What life are you expecting to
Come where you'll do it?

The person who doesn't stand with the mob
The person who doesn't go along with the mob
The person who refuses to walk with the crowd
Will feel better
The person who doesn't stand with the mob
The person who doesn't go along with the mob
Will achieve more in their lives
Whatever that is because they
Will have self-respect

I'm comfortable
As comfortable as you can be in the end times
As everything's burning down
And there's plagues of locusts coming our way
And I have the satisfaction of
Knowing that I'm not lying
The problem with going along is
That it demoralizes you
It makes you a smaller person, inside
You will be demoralized
Because you'll know that you
Shouldn't have done that and at some level
You will think badly of yourself
For having done it
You'll feel regretful, you'll feel cowardly
And it will affect your life in other ways
And the opposite is also true

The person who doesn't stand with the mob
The person who doesn't go along with the mob
The person who refuses to walk with the crowd
Will feel better
The person who doesn't stand with the mob
The person who doesn't go along with the mob
Will achieve more in their lives
Whatever that is because they
Will have self-respect

That's what totalitarian movements across
History always knew
Was that you grind people down and
Make them agree to the lies
Because you will then be able
To make them do anything
Vaclav Havel, great late Czech leader
Cites the example of a greengrocer in Prague
In the Communist era in Eastern Europe
Who has to put up in his window
Like everyone else, the notice that says
"Workers of the world, unite!"
And it's sent by party
Headquarters to all greengrocers
And you all have to hang it
And Vaclav Havel says a number
Of things happened from this
The first thing is that, of course
That the greengrocer is
Showing to everyone that he
Is a party loyalist
And he wouldn't be able to operate as a
Business if he didn't do this thing
But it also hangs there every day
As a sign of his subjugation
It's a little thing, but it hangs there as a
Sign of his subjugation
And it reminds him that he's not
The man he could be
You think you're doing a little thing
But you're not
You are diminishing your soul by doing this
Because you know that you could be something
More than the person who just
Has to hang whatever party headquarters tells
You to hang this week

The person who doesn't stand with the mob
The person who doesn't go along with the mob
The person who refuses to walk with the crowd
Will feel better
The person who doesn't stand with the mob
The person who doesn't go along with the mob
Will achieve more in their lives
Whatever that is because they
Will have self-respect
The person who doesn't stand with the mob The
Person who doesn't go along with the mob
The person who refuses to walk
With the crowd Will
Feel better The person who doesn't stand
With the mob The person who
Doesn't go along with the mob Will
Achieve more in their lives
Whatever that is Because they
Will have self-respect