You're Getting Out

What you need to understand is--

I’m here for the life

You’re going to have later

That’s what I am composed of

And attempting to accomplish

With you

Please look at me

When I’m speaking to you

I have never indicated

That I do not think

You are worthy of my respect

But you are surely mistaken

If you think that at any point

That same respect

Will not be shown to me

I put you in front of these computers

Because these computers

Are where your future is

Not outside

Not playing

You see how your uncle is

With your cousins

Out on the field

Every weekend

Teaching them to hit a ball

Like that’s a reasonable investment

It might pay off

But it’s not a given

We do given’s in this house

We do sure things

I’m not interested

In rolling the dice

On making you

The next Babe Ruth

I’d rather sit you right here

In front of this monitor

And make sure you’re going to be somebody

I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention

To the news

But the 80’s aren’t exactly the era

Of wise decisions

It might as well be Armageddon out there

So while I believe in the value

Of sunshine

And recreation

I also believe that when I send my son

Out of my house

I want him to come back

In one piece

So as far as I’m concerned

You’re going to have to get

All that sunshine

And playtime

When you’re older

And can appreciate it more

And if that leaves you

A little vitamin deficient

And resentful

Then it’s still better

Than being dead

So that’s just fine with me

I was not born with many abilities

Not like your uncle

Who could pick up anything

With a little practice

Baseball, football, anything

But you know where it got him?

Two blocks away

That’s it

And now he’s trying to see

If he can get his kids

Another two blocks

And maybe in a hundred years

Some people in this family

Will be far enough away

To live some kinda life

I guess that’s his plan

But that’s not my plan

That’s not my plan for you

You’re going to sit here

And you’re going to pick up

As much as you can

About coding

And wiring

And doing whatever else

You have to do

To be one of those people

I see on the news

Working out of their garage

Creating the future

While everybody laughs at 'em

Because it doesn't matter who's laughing

It only matters where the people getting laughed at

End up

You see what I'm talking about?

You stick your hands

All the way into the future

And you’re going to birth

Something good

I believe that

You know what my only ability was growing up?

I could see the future

I could look at things

And know where they were going

And where they weren’t going

I looked at my brother

And I saw he was going to be stuck here

And so were his kids

And so were their kids

And so was I

But I also saw you

I saw you

And I knew you weren’t getting stuck

I knew that I was going to hold you

Tighter than anybody had ever held anybody

And I knew that was the only way

I was ever going

To get you out