Self Advice

When you tell somebody else what to do The person that you’re talking to is you The things we don’t like in another soul Are the things that are stopping us from being whole So always act on your own advice If you want to see the gates of Paradise We always know what our shortcomings are Even if we’d rather not look too far And we always want to make ourselves get better Though we try to redirect the ‘Clean-up’ letter By writing 'Not known at this address Please forward to someone else’s mess' The more we voice the same 'You ought’a' The more we’re pointing at our own loose mortar And the longer we put off our own repairs The harder the work and the higher the fares So listen closely when you start to remonstrate And take your own advice before it’s too late