If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

See the animal in his cage that you built

Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?

See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart

And it's all
Right where it belongs


What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know

Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?

What if you could look right through the cracks?
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?


What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own?

Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you're really all alone?

You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the woods

While you're hiding in the trees

What if everything around you

Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream?

And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks

Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.