Don Cortez
"The Phobia"

So many lives
So little time
So much goin' on
It's hard to deal with mine
Can't step away
To just look in
Cause letting my guard down
Won't allow me to win
Trying to attach
To things right now
Setting in stone
What's not a priority
Living for now
Seems to be the minority
And though future goals
And ideas are a must
Some aren't feasible
And done in lust
Of things we see
And things expected
No one's prepared for
The times that are hectic
The days that we live
For a moment we're happy
We don't consider that
That world can turn crappy
For fear of regressing
Back to square one
Decisions are made
Then calling it done
You're a damn fool
For being naive and young
Breathe more into life
Before holding young tongue
Though living in dreams
Now, seems to be fun
You've got a long way to go
So get ready to run

Changes occur on a regular
Don't exclude yourself from that
A person is a human is a person
And when times get rough, you gotta fight back
Save yourself from the blow
Cause nothing lasts forever
Think it all through, those things that deal with you
The time is now or never

I can admit that I talked
And thought the same way too
Till I lost my ground
In this modern day zoo
It took a setback
To help me learn what to do
I drew from all those mistakes
Before I started anew
I guess the options are limited
And some take what they get
But you're only a score
And yet you've got no regret?
You say you're ready and able
But I must disagree
And this might come as an attack
Since it's coming from me
But I love ya
I won't tell you lies
I won't do this in spite
I won't assume and surmise
I can only report
What I've seen in our lives
Taking to consider
Time to analyze
Trial and error, world terror
Power ranger, gangbanger
Drama queens, comin' clean
Doin' dope, false hope
Losing jobs, losing lives
Pity dates, rape
When love dies and breaking ties
Can't escape fate
These are all realities
They come in all formalities
Emotional fatalities
Victims getting tallies
I can't force you
But I'm only tryna help
The first step of happiness
Comes from the self

Hook

But the feelings are surreal
There's another side of the spectrum
It's hard to change how I feel
My heart is beating like a taiko drum
Shunning the idea that it'll happen to me
Is just a convenient comfort
Sooner or later, I'mma have to deal
I gotta put my mind to work

(Hypothetically, what would you do?
If any of these events were to happen to you,
Would you roll with the punches?
Or stay stuck in the glue?
The way you decide sets the path for you...)

Hook

The inspiration behind this song was the fact that I noticed a lot of friends are living in a dream world, thinking that the situations (relationships, friendships, depression) they are in are going to last forever, and taking the these situations and mapping out the rest of their lives around it. It urks me when people don't consider reality into the equation. I do mention that ("Though living in dreams/Now, seems to be fun/You've got a long way to go/So get ready to run"). I may seem like the protagonist, but one has to keep all of their options at all times, even in things are going good, cause you'll NEVER know when you're caught off your guard, and pulled into "The Phobia", your phobia.