This Too Shall Pass

Things change fast
 But this too shall pass
 Better carve it on your forehead
 Or tattoo it on your ass
 'Cause who can tell
 When the clock strikes twelve
 If today's become tomorrow
 Or if it's all just gone to hell
 My friend makes rings
 She swirls and sings
 She's a mystic in the sense
 That she's still mystified by things
 But scared to ask
 How can nothing seem to last
 'Cause like a cancer in your body
 It all just goes too fast
 We think too big
 We think our self is one whole thing
 And we claim that this collection
 Has a name and is a being
 But deep inside
 When every cell divides
 Well, it sets upon the rule that states
 Self-interest is divine
 Cancer, too
 Lives by this golden rule
 That you must do unto the others
 As the others unto you
 All for the best
 'Cause that's all the life accepts
 And so we kill it like a buffalo
 With awe and with respect
 Don't ask God
 Just holler at the sky
 'Cause she'll tell it to you plainly
 In the clouds that whisper by
 And praise the shapes
 And then praise the way they change
 And they'll teach you not to pray to light
 Without you pray to rain
 So, I pray to hands
 And I pray to needs
 And I pray to blades of grass
 To find forgiveness in the weeds
 But as for health
 I just never did believe
 And so I never prayed myself
 Except to those that prayed for me
 The story goes
 Or the way that I was told
 There was a king that always felt too high
 And then he felt too low
 And so he called
 All the wise men to the hall
 And he begged them for a gift
 To end the rises and the falls
 And here's the thing
 They came back with a ring
 It was simple and was plainly
 Unbefitting of a king
 Engraved in black
 Well, it had no front or back
 But there were words around the band that said
 "Just know: this too shall pass"