how can I compete?

how can I compete with a guy like that?
how can i compete
if he has blue eyes
and sings Frank Sinatra
under the golden lights?

how can I compete with a guy like that
if he can embrace you
and tease you
and make you feel butterflies
and happy stomachache?

how can I compete?
how can I compete
with someone so outrageous
so incredible and so fancy?

oh, tell me, how can I compete
if I just have this old pair of shoes
and a couple of books
stucked in my cheap rented closet?

oh, how can I compete?
if he sings you The Smiths songs
and quote Rimbaud and the Stones?

oh, how can I compete?
if he have money
to get you to the right places
to show you the right faces
and make your body tremble
on the night time?

oh, how can I compete?
if I'm just a poor boy
with a little budget
and an anxious mind?

oh, how can I compete?
I can't
but nobody said it was forbidden
to try.

despite

despite of everything good and everything bad
despite the loneliness, the desperation
the madness and the despair
despite the problems and the solutions
don't give up.

it's not the time yet
it was not the time yesterday
and it will not be the time tomorrow
'cause despite of all this and much more
despite of all your sorrows
and all your willing
and all your sobbing
something still matters.

stay close to your books
your records and your paintings.
stay close to public libraries,
museums, record shops and pubs.

stay close to your beloved ones
if you still have any.
if you don't, that's ok too
despite of everything
you have yourself
and you will not give up.

despite of all this and much more
you still have poems
love letters never sent and never answered
and exciting dreams about any and everything.

so, despite of all that
and despite of all this
it still not the time to go.

so don't give up.
and things will settle down.
don't give up
and the rain will stop
soon enough for you to see the rainbows
or wathever is hidden beyond there.

and I know
and you know
that for sure there's something
for us.

it could be something not that great
but still
there's something for all of us.

so despite of everything, I remind you once again
to don't give up.