All around the world, every human being
Has a start and a false start, an end and a beginning
whether a bone to pick or seed to sow
there is one thing that I know
what you choose to do or not do
this is one thing that is true
Everybody matters
Everybody matters
Even you
The Concubine, the Creole maid, The one who calls a spade a spade
The drinker drinking in the bar, the dreamer staring at the stars
The cook who burns all the meals, The dad who can’t say what he feels
the fat kid on the fat farm, the salesman with all the charm
the bum with the shopping cart, the redneck and the pop tart
the bully in the schoolyard, the porn star working hard
the man who cheated on his wife, the robber with the kitchen knife
the hooker at the edge of town, the drummer who keeps slowing down
the peacenik and the fascist , the slowest and the fastest
the mailman, the store clerk, bartender and the soda jerk
the dancer with the left feet, the girl that doesn’t eat wheat
the rich and the royal, the clean and the soiled
dictator and the diplomat, bald guy in a big hat
the comic book collector, the Soviet defector
the drunkard and the teetotaler, the bluesman and the mountain yodeler
the one who gave the plot away, the other who just couldn’t stay
the pirate and the sailor, the mother and the jailor
the winner and the failer
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