Hustle & Grind | Song A Day #5000
Channel: Jonathan Mann
Date: 2022-09-09

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It’s good to take breaks
It’s good to have fun
Oh you can be sure
There’ll always be more
Work to be done 
But life ain’t a game
That needs to be won
Your hustle and grind
It starts to remind
Me of a puritan (protestant)
Worshipping work
Demand blood sacrifice 
Leaving death in the dust
Like Sisyphus 
Now you'll pay the price 

Don't forget to live even if you’re scared
That the life you dream of will suddenly just disappear
When you strip away all the money
All your wild ambition oh honey
Underneath it all, you're still you 

It’s good to take naps
It’s good to see friends
It’s good to daydream 
Read Shel Silverstein 
Where The Sidewalk Ends
(and grow a beard)
Go for a walk
See the stars up above 
It’s good to slow down
To fool around
Hug the ones that you love 
Don’t work so hard
Don’t work yourself dead
It’s the biggest regret
Dying people said
On their dying beds
(It's true!)

[LACKHONEY]
(Thank you legend)
Most of these days I get caught in my mind
Breaks are some shit I could use, realized it
I been wondering if I need some time
Been thinking of new ways to use up the schedule
Chasing some numbers and rankings
Work till the bone got me nothing
The shit that I needed came to me when I let all of it go
Talked to my mom and stayed patient

And I know on the high road
Is not somewhere that I need to be
And somewhere and some how
I just need to breathe
Woah

[Louie C. Rhymes]
(It's Louie, baby)
Run to the clock punch in the spot
hate every day that I come to this job
Like why am I here it bring me no cheer
I'm living in fear like like the government wants
Getting worked up to get talked down 
On my work lunch in my car now
It's that first pump when I bought down 
Now I don’t give a fuck about what the boss says 
Didn’t HODL so you poor now
Bunch of bozos yeah you all clowns
Flippin' profiles from the work lounge
And I don’t give a fuck about what the boss says 
Good morning good morning the normies asleep
Stable ain’t safe not even for sheep
I’m doing me despite all the fakers
Hold my NFT or you’re not gonna make it
(It's Louie, baby)

[Neer]
My notifications are blowing up
I take a look at my follower numbers and that shit keep going up 
I write a thread and it’s going viral
That’s why they’re all throwing up
Subscribe to my Substack
I know you love that 
Tell me I’m good enough 
I’ll share a pic of my Porsche 
I might deliver a course 
NFT sweeping the floor 
My throat is feeling so sore
On twitter space giving a talk
Personal… brands
Not lookings for friends, I want fans
I don’t need sleep, I got plans 
I don’t need love, I got hands… what

[Iman Europe]
The rest is part the work
And the work is nothing without rest (yeah!)
The hustle and bustle can hurt ya  
The grind it can cause you to stress (yeah!)
I know you wanna come in first
I know you wanna be the best (yeah!)
Too much energy you exert
I need you to learn to do less, yes

[Domino]
With less of the lessons I pardoned my best 
With the best in the back I got gold in my chest 
Need to rest or invest  85 hours on beaches with beds 
So I can sleep through the waves in my head 
I think I'm distressed need a breath (ahh)
That’s feeling bet...ter
I'm writing letters 
To my future self, a reminder that it can always be better so

It’s good to run fast
It’s good to walk slow
It’s good to soft shoe
In the morning when you
Have nowhere to go
It’s good to touch grass
It’s good to skip stones
It’s good to name clouds
That remind you of pals
That have gone
They’re just over that hill 
They’re beaming and proud
They’re cheering you on
Hear their applause
As the rains coming down


0:00 introduction
0:09 Verse 1 "It's good to take breaks"
1:00 Chorus 1
1:31 Verse 2 "It's good to take naps"
2:22 Chorus 2
2:52 Lackhoney x Rime Salmi
3:11 interlude x Rhiannon Wells
3:29 Louie C. Rhymes x Emilee Lord
4:05 Neer x Twitch All-Stars Brass Ensemble & Amie Ferrier
4:41 Iman Europe x Jonathan Mann
4:57 Domino x Kim Hamlin
5:19 Verse 3 "It's good to run fast"
6:10 Chorus 3


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