The Dubno Maggid says that the best way to ensure that you hit the bullseye is to first shoot the arrow and then paint the bullseye around it.
This song is dedicated to all the heroes who don't ever change their targets based on where their arrows landed. These heroes know the truth and stick to the truth, no matter how many times they fail. They never give up, and never abandon their quest for the real truth.
I know the truth, I know where to go, but my legs are still heavy, and I'm still learning to walk. There's lead in my feet and the sky is calling me. I spread my wings and fall on my knees again.
I need to change. The truth doesn't change. Even if I fell again this time, tomorrow I'll try again.
The truth doesn't change, only I need to change. A thousand times I'll still fall, a thousand times I'll try to rise. The truth doesn't change — not in failure, not in success. I'm still not there, but I won't abandon the truth.
I've already gotten used to myself, to the habits that won't let go of me, to the old excuses, to the voices that soothe me. It's so easy to say "this is just who I am," but I won't lower the bar just to make myself comfortable.
I need to change. The truth doesn't change. Even if I fell again this time, tomorrow I'll try again.
The truth doesn't change, only I need to change. A thousand times I'll still fall, a thousand times I'll try to rise. The truth doesn't change — not in failure, not in success. I'm still not there, but I won't abandon the truth.
Even when I fall, the truth stays standing. It never asked me to be perfect — only not to abandon the path.
I'll fall again, I'll get up again, I'll fail again, I'll come back again.
And on that final day, when I look back, better to have failed and lived with the light, better to have failed and lived in truth, than to have succeeded at everything and lived inside a lie.
The truth doesn't change, only I need to change. A thousand times I'll still fall, a thousand times I'll try to rise. The truth doesn't change — not in failure, not in success. I'm still not there, but I won't abandon the truth.
I'm still not there, but I won't abandon the truth.
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