<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Even if it takes . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Ten Thousand Hours" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">(some profanity)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Ten_Thousand_Hours_Macklemore_Ryan_Lewis.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Ten_Thousand_Hours_Macklemore_Ryan_Lewis.mp3</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I hope that God decides to talk through him</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">That the people decide to walk with him</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Regardless of pitchfork cosigns I've jumped</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Make sure the soundman doesn't cockblock the drums</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Let the snare knock the air right out of your lungs</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And those words be the oxygen</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Just breathe</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Amen, regardless I'mma say it</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Felt like I got signed the day that I got an agent</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Got an iTunes check, shit man I'm paying rent</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">About damn time that I got out of my basement</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">About damn time I got around the country and I hit these stages</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I was made to slay them</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand hours I'm so damn close I can taste it</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">On some Malcolm Gladwell, David Bowie meets Kanye shit</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is dedication</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">A life lived for art is never a life wasted</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand ants</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousands ants, they carry me</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand ants</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousands ants, they carry me</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Now, now, now</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is my world, this is my arena</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The TV told me something different I didn't believe it</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I stand here in front of you today all because of an idea</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I could be who I wanted if I could see my potential</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And I know that one day I'mma be him</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Put the gloves on, sparring with my ego</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Everyone's greatest obstacle, I beat 'em</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Celebrate that achievement</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Got some attachments, some baggage I'm actually working on leaving</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">See, I observed Escher</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I love Basquiat</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I watched Keith Haring</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">You see I study art</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The greats were great cause they paint a lot</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I will not be a statistic</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Just let me be</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">No child left behind, that's the American scheme</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I make my living off of words</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And do what I love for work</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And got around 980 on my SATs</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Take that system, what did you expect?</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Generation of kids choosing love over a desk</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Put those hours in and look at what you get</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Nothing that you can hold, but everything that it is</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand ants</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousands ants, they carry me</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousand hours felt like ten thousand ants</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ten thousands ants, they carry me</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Same shit, different day, same struggle</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Slow motion as time slips through my knuckles</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Nothing beautiful about it, no light at the tunnel</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">For the people that put the passion before them being comfortable</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Raw, unmedicated heart no substitute</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Banging on table tops, no substitute</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I'm feeling better than ever man, what is up with you?</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Scraping my knuckles, I'm battling with some drug abuse</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I lost another friend, got another call from a sister</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And I speak for the people that share that struggle too</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Like they got something bruised</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">My only rehabilitation was the sweat, tears and blood when up in the booth...</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">It's the part of the show</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Where it all fades away</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">When the lights go to black</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And the band leaves the stage</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And you wanted an encore</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">But there's no encore today</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cause the moment is now</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Can't get it back from the grave</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Part of the show</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">It all fades away</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Lights go to black</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Band leaves the stage</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">You wanted an encore</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">But there's no encore today</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Cause the moment is now</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Can't get it back from the grave</div></span></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Welcome to the heist</div></span><span style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Welcome to the heist..."</div></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>