(Track #6 from The Road Less Traveled)

Simplify

By Frank Meyer

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Verse 1

Susie went to college to become an engineer

Mom and dad were so pleased with this respectable career

Four long years she worked so hard, got the 4.0

Then offers came from everywhere, enticing her to go

The software sages sent for her to come to the west coast

But the tycoons down on Wall Street offered her the most

She seemed to be upon the road to fulfill all her dreams

But late at night when she tried to sleep, her soul let out this scream

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“Simplify! Oh, simplify!” is what Henry David said

Listen to what’s in your heart and not what’s in your head

Be the individual who turns to face the storm

Do not let your mind convince your soul it must conform.

Verse 2
Susie reached the top at the mere age of thirty-five

Having much more money than she needed to survive

Bought herself a big white house, a little red sports car

And after work she'd go and sip martinis in the bars

Shopping with all her friends at the finest clothing stores

All the perfect gentlemen knocking at her door

When anybody spoke to her, her smiling face would beam

But late at night when she tried to sleep, her soul let out this scream

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Verse 3
Then one day it happened, and without uttering a sound

Susie made a move that turned her whole life upside down

Sold the house, sold the car, gave the clothes away

And when they asked her why, well, there was nothing she could say

She moved out to the country to a quiet little place

With trees and streams and mountains and lots and lots of space

Now late at night when she went to sleep and drifted into dreams

No longer was she haunted by this penetrating scream

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©2007 Frank Meyer