Not Because It`s Easy, But Because It`s Hard

Knock knock, are you there? Sorry to wake you, my fellow bear I'll slip this song under a rock somewhere So you can hear it when it's summer It hurts to hear you been exhausted I've seen too many people 'round me haunted By the cruelest to-do lists Longer than the end credits of movies It shocked me to hear about Avicii Did you see that documentary? I read Avicii means hell in Buddhism And hell is what his dream had become That scene when he tried to cancel those shows Made me think back on some years ago So scared of letting anyone down I worked myself slowly into the ground Felt the cortisol pumping through my sleep When an ad flashed by in my Facebook feed A cheap DNA cloning kit Didn't know technology had made it there yet Connected it to a USB hub Dabbed saliva on a cotton bud Gave my passwords to all my email accounts And slowly a body rose from the ground With more clones of me we would have more time One could write the tune and the other the rhymes A third could focus on the business And a fourth would send greeting cards for Christmas But soon our focus fell apart I said “guys, if all of us do our part We could make it to the moon with our art Not because it's easy, but because it's hard But because it's hard” I heard the clones bragging About all the sleep they'd been missing They posted vids of them sipping On a smoothie while their eyes were twitching Coffee for lunch, email for dinner In those press photos we've never looked thinner Exhaustion only happens to a winner Wear it like a badge of honour It was not until clone number one Was hospitalized with palpitations That they asked themselves what they'd done And were horrified by what they had become And the slaves turned on their master Filmed me while they kicked my ass there And posted it with the caption “Smash the capitalist system” So I hope you slept well in your bear's den I hope you're back on your feet again But if you should need the time to Take the next month off and I'll cover for you