"Stay As You Are"

This song is heard in one of the current Nissan Xterra ads. I liked the lyrics and did a search for them. The band is called Span, who hail from Norway. They sound a lot like Collective Soul, but the song wasn't listed on the track listing of Collective Soul's release, "Youth".

Stay As You Are --Span
from the CD Mass Distraction


I’ve always been skeptical of people praising their conformity
guys taking great pride in being like the others
like their mothers-in-law wanted

Does my tie fit alright?
Is my fly up and tight?

Stay as you are and you won’t make a difference
stay as you are and you will never mean a thing
stay as you are and you won't make a difference
I hope your full control in your little hole is worth it

I’ve never thought that to reach the masses
you stick your tongue up in the right asses
but that’s the system that works in here
you make yourself appear electable

I’ll just play whatever your game

you go first I’ll do the same

Stay as you are and you won’t make a difference
stay as you are and you will never mean a thing
stay as you are and you won't make a difference
I hope your full control in your little hole is worth it
Is it worth it?

wooooh x4

You brag about being an autonomous man in an autonomous land
of independence and free thinking,
but it’s been five years pm
and you’re still nothing but a lackey,
a puppet on a string

I’ll look great when the war is over
I’ll be waving from my rover

Stay as you are and you won’t make a difference
stay as you are and you will never mean a thing
stay as you are and you won't make a difference
I hope your full control in your little hole is worth it

I hope your full control in your little hole is worth it x3


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Wow! Harsh! Sad thing is, I know people like this. The message every one of us hears is to conform and no one gets hurt. Well, conformity is boring. I'm not like anyone else. I'll conform only so far, but if it means that I have to be like everyone else under the sun, then forget it! I didn't get this far in life without taking some risks and pissing off some people along the way.

And I'm apparently really good at pissing people off.


And that's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--