John Reuben - Cooperate lyrics

Lose the costume
The day’s of dress-up are gone
Time to join in and put a different outfit on
Maybe that’s harsh well let’s
Find a happy medium
Be responsible and you can wear
It in the evening

This dude took pride in his cause everyday
Put on his costume which defined who he was
He said he didn’t care he liked being unique
Accused the rest of the world of
Being a bunch of sheep
Lived his life going against the grain
Spent all of his time with
Those who felt the same
Hit his mid-twenties and
Still nothing’s changed
Except his boys who chose to grow with age
Now he’s looking for friends
With the same behavior


He hangs out on campus with
A bunch of teenagers
He’s punk rock he’s Hip-Hop he’s
Everything the system's not
And he likes it that way
He likes being on the defense
He likes having something to fight against
He likes calling himself a revolutionist
I’m sorry but you have an identity crisis

Lose the costume
The day’s of dress-up are gone
Time to join in and put a different outfit on
Maybe that’s harsh well let’s
Find a happy medium
Be responsible and you can wear
It in the evening
And on the weekends when it’s appropriate
You can make believe for a minute
Stir up some controversy and have fun
But hang-up your angst when play time is done

Ignore the truth and
Neglect your responsibility
Because you can’t decipher the real
World from your hobbies
This whole starving artist shtick you’ve been
Running with is wearing thin
Put it to an end and grow old gracefully
Time for you to start cooperating
'cause rent ain’t free
And neither is your family’s needs
What you want and should expect
Are two different things
You think the rest of the
World likes their suit's and
Ties working nine to five just to get by?
Maybe, I mean if they’ve figured out what it
Truly means to make this life count
But that don’t sit well
With you’re anti-authority
Me against the world sub-genre category
That you’ve placed yourself in
Do you honestly think the average
Man celebrates the system but they cooperate

The day’s of dress-up are gone
Time to join in and put a different outfit on
Maybe that’s harsh well let’s
Find a happy medium
Be responsible and you can wear
It in the evening

Cooperate
Looks like we've got ourselves a case
Of a young man trying to find his place
Feel the tension from
His independence slipping
Eating his ideals as the real world grips him
What a sad little human being
And I'm sorry that might be mean
But, you've been picking on folks in
The name of your scene
And now you have to lose
Your costume and come clean
And that's just the thing
Is it your cause or your outfit?
I guess it meant nothing at all in a sense
Cause then if it did your
Involvement would mean more
Than middle fingers and the opportunity
To instigate arguments
But, you like being on the defense
You like having something to fight against
Even without a cause you
Like being a revolutionist
I'm sorry but you have an identity crisis

Lose the costume
The day’s of dress-up are gone
Time to join in and put a different outfit on
Maybe that’s harsh well let’s
Find a happy medium
Be responsible and you can wear
It in the evening
And on the weekends when it’s appropriate
You can make believe for a minute
Stir up some controversy and have fun
But hang-up your angst when play time is done