Don't come on like a guru
Don't come on like a Guru
Don't come on like a Guru
Like you know all of it
Don't say, you know the answers
It will not help a bit
There might be some in foolishness
That want to follow you
Yet all In all, you be like us
You don't know what be true.
You might have read a lot of books
But that don't mean a thing
These words, my friend be borrowed
No wisdom do they bring
No book will make you holy
You have to seek it out
You have to understand yourself
To know what life's about.
Guru's, well there be so many of them
You might think you be filled with sacred gems
But in the end you're lost
Just like the rest of us
The one who says he knows, you just can't trust.
Don't come on like a Guru
With your mind all filled with words
A lot of folk might listen
And then you will be heard
But in the end you're fooling
Yourself and that be all
Don't come on like a Guru
No, don't you be a fool
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Submitted on July 17, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 860 |
Words | 189 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 5, 8 |
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