1st Verse:
We should all strive
To respect ourselves
We have one life
Protect your health
We need peace of mind
Forget the wealth
Cause if you can’t
Then who should
Respect you or your lifestyle
Being or your profile
Look into a mirror see clearer
Crack a big smile
Love everything about you
Never doubt a thing about the presence that you maintain
And everything you are
No choices in the matter of your overall physical
Biologic reflection of your parents is the minimal
Focus on your inner glow
Take it to the pinnacle
No matter how you live some people always seem to ridicule
Could it be they don’t respect themselves?
So they try to bring you down as well
You have to stand tall defend your belt
And tell the negative to get some help
Cause nobody can love you like you love yourself
Strong frame of mind and positivity the wealth of an individual
Deflecting criticism rather miniscule
Whether of the mind or physical

2nd Verse:
We should all strive
To respect ourselves
We have one life
Protect your health
We need peace of mind
Forget the wealth
Cause if you can’t
Then who should
Respect your own physical embodiment
When many forms of toxins circulate throughout our modern day environment
Alcoholic
Narcotic
No logic required to consume although a caveat remains until this day Substance abuse on the loose
Leading to numerous defects
While we’re living in mute
As we continue to neglect our own health and the truth
Of the negative effects upon ourselves and the proof
Of the circumstantial handling and managing of drugs within our body structure
Intoxication celebrated as a part of culture?
Focused on the shallow and the battering of physicals today
Without a care of whether not we see tomorrow
The sorrow and the cries of the lives we affect
Remains a pure indication of a lack of respect
In effect
To the gratefulness of breathing every breath
Unchecked
We’re solidifying suffering and death

3rd Verse:
We should all strive
To respect ourselves
We have one life
Protect your health
We need peace of mind
Forget the wealth
Cause if you can’t
Then who should
Respect the position that you maintain
When to the top a lot of people pushing trying to gain the same thing
Backstabbing
Crab within a barrel steady grabbing
This is happening throughout the world in many different fashions
What will you do to achieve?
Play a position where your goal is to trick and deceive?
Or be the victim of the wicked while you’re aiming to please?
When we should all just play a part that falls somewhere in between
Without the need of
Manipulating others to acquire higher status
Or submissive type behavior with the hope of climbing ladders
When the truth is you could carry your position in a manner
That’s considered fair and balanced while achieving greater status
No compromising
Rise above the petty and be ready to embrace the challenges
Throughout the world presented steady on a daily basis
Careful when you’re chasing and embracing the pursuit
Of higher status keeping self respect adjacent
We should all strive
To respect ourselves
We have one life
Protect your health
We need peace of mind
Forget the wealth
Cause if you can’t
Then who should
Respect.