To Be Serious

You must be serious,
To be taken as such,
Which requires you've a lot of discipline,
Sophisticated touch,

A keen eye for the tears in the fabric,
Of what we all accept,
As the way things are 'cause that's how things are,
As if the right way's only where we've stepped,

You must know yourself, because if you don't,
You won't know anything,
You cannot label the things around you,
When the world is spinning,

But most of all,
To be taken as such,
Your grip's to be so tight on what is right,
That no one can ever loosen your clutch.