I promise I am not controlled
by failure or by fear.
I simply take advice where I
can find it, far or near.
And I have learned a simple thing
about others' advice:
that those who give wise words are oft-
-en scarred and bruised by vice.
The best advice will come from those
who've rolled and bathed in mud,
and those whose countless leaps of faith
have colored them in blood.
The best advice will come from those
who've felt their kind hearts shatter,
and those who stare at blades and rope
and into murky water.
The best advice will come from those
who've screamed and fought and cried,
and those poor souls who've been betrayed
or to whom others lied.
Though when the times are good the on-
-ly thoughts I need are mine,
in darkness I'll take words of those
whose times are worse than mine.