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If Only He Applied Himself
Uncle Bard & The Dirty Bastards
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Oh if I hadn't been so stubborn
I could have been a great many things
Iโd have a larger estate
And a shorter list of sins
I should have been a good boy
Like me ma begged me to be
Spared her coming back home
To find mud up to me knees
But I never paid attention
I had me head way over me heels
Lost through songs and stories
Scattered dreams to make real
โIf only he applied himselfโ
Itโs what teachers used to say
But their aim to be wealthy
Well, it never called on me
Thereโs no quid, no glory
Nor a pat on your back
Itโs a short lived story
Told by one of many names
โHe never fully achieved
His potentialityโ
But I had nothing else to do
Than just live happily
If I listened to them all
I should be already dead
Or maybe Iโd be a businessman
Thatโs an even much worse end
But it happened I had a talent
Not for singing, not for dance
But for wasting money and time
Trying to be the man I am
I never wanted to take on
The whole world with a song
But just leave me tiny mark
โThought soon wiped out and gone
I tried to be a curious man
But I did it for meself
For to see the world and squander
Was an all-cure for me health
Thereโs no quid, no glory
Nor a pat on your back
Itโs a short lived story
Told by one of many names
โHe never fully achieved
His potentialityโ
But I had nothing else to do
Than just live happily
The words I choose so carefully
On a dusty shelf lie will
Among some of the greatest
That Iโm not worth being with
More likely theyโd be handy
To steady a table leg
But being so sophomoric
Iโve had me mighty craic
For those who come right after me
Iโve some tired old lines to give:
Donโt be afraid to be
Whoever you are meant to be
Thereโll always be a road somewhere
Leading us out of despair
But donโt take life too seriously
An drink every drop of it
Thereโs no quid, no glory
Nor a pat on your back
Itโs a short lived story
Told by one of many names
โHe never fully achieved
His potentialityโ
But I had nothing else to do
Than just live happily