Nuance
Posted on August 22, 2010 with 0 comments
Nuance is the difference between needs and wants.
I want to feel connected, but I need to feel at peace.I want to be famous, but I need to be respected.I want to change the world, but I need to improve my piece.I want people to always love, but I need malice to cease.
Nuance is the difference between needs and wants.
I could die today and except for abandoning my daughter, I would be at peaceI don't have much of anything left to prove, I've achieved a grooveThat swings to the beat of my heart and drives my steps every time I moveBut this doesn't mean This doesn't meanThis does not meanThat I don't have ambitionThat I don't have driveThat I don't have plansThat I don't want to thrive
it just means that I know the difference between my needs and my wantsIt means I can live in peace, while striving with gleeIt means I've passed my finish line and am driving freeTo uncharted towns in the universe of me
I got my Pulitzer Prize a few days agoWhen a young woman came up to me just to let me knowThat when I came to her school and performed my piece 'dyke'She came out to herself and her self she began to likeAnd now she's out and she's living more happilyAnd she thanked me genuinely and I performed dyke for her onlyAnd the smile she smiled as I performed that pieceIs more thanks that I could ever conceiveAll thoughts of greater achievements faded awayAnd I thanked her for helping me perceiveHow one lone performanceIn front of an terrible audience (seriously, these kids were obnoxious)On a wet April dayCould help one person out and help them along their way.
Ani did it for me.And I did it for this young woman.And in my eyes you can seeAll the success I've achieved.
So nuance is the difference between needs and wants.And I'm convinced that I've got all I need.And I don't think it's greed to try to go beyond,But it's enough that I've cleaned up my little pond.
I want to feel connected, but I need to feel at peace.I want to be famous, but I need to be respected.I want to change the world, but I need to improve my piece.I want people to always love, but I need malice to cease.
Nuance is the difference between needs and wants.
I could die today and except for abandoning my daughter, I would be at peaceI don't have much of anything left to prove, I've achieved a grooveThat swings to the beat of my heart and drives my steps every time I moveBut this doesn't mean This doesn't meanThis does not meanThat I don't have ambitionThat I don't have driveThat I don't have plansThat I don't want to thrive
it just means that I know the difference between my needs and my wantsIt means I can live in peace, while striving with gleeIt means I've passed my finish line and am driving freeTo uncharted towns in the universe of me
I got my Pulitzer Prize a few days agoWhen a young woman came up to me just to let me knowThat when I came to her school and performed my piece 'dyke'She came out to herself and her self she began to likeAnd now she's out and she's living more happilyAnd she thanked me genuinely and I performed dyke for her onlyAnd the smile she smiled as I performed that pieceIs more thanks that I could ever conceiveAll thoughts of greater achievements faded awayAnd I thanked her for helping me perceiveHow one lone performanceIn front of an terrible audience (seriously, these kids were obnoxious)On a wet April dayCould help one person out and help them along their way.
Ani did it for me.And I did it for this young woman.And in my eyes you can seeAll the success I've achieved.
So nuance is the difference between needs and wants.And I'm convinced that I've got all I need.And I don't think it's greed to try to go beyond,But it's enough that I've cleaned up my little pond.