Share in the Blame

Perhaps it's a generational thing, maybe it's just me. But it seems more and more these days that people refuse to take responsibility for their own actions. Everyone is a victim, everything is someone else's fault.

I didn't get this accomplished because someone else prevented it. I didn't get the job because so and so didn't like me. It wasn't my fault, my alarm didn't go off. I didn't get my assignment done because the computer didn't work at the last minute. People don't want to face the fact that they are responsible for their own actions and own decisions.

You.

You are the one responsible. You are. Your choice. Your actions, your consequences. Your decisions, your rewards. It's time to step and take the responsibility for where you are at in your life. We are all big people and big people know where the buck stops.

We have to stop blaming everyone else. We have to stop blaming the past and making excuses. It's time that we share the blame.

This song is from my good friends Caedmon's Call.

Share in the Blame
Caedmon's Call


Don’t blame the bullet for the wars you have sown
Don’t blame the winter when you’ve forgotten your coat
When you make the same deals for a hundred years
and you wanna make a change
You gotta hold up the mirror and share in the blame

Don’t blame your brother for the color of his skin
don’t blame your neighbor for the house he lives in
from the same cloth, we are made of, we are just the same
you gotta hold up the mirror and share in the blame

(chorus)
like a coming of age, I am learning how to say
all the failures I’m dragging behind
Finding freedom to speak, freedom to release
Oh tonight I wanna make peace with you

Don’t blame the writer for the doubts in your head
Don’t blame the preacher for the lovers in your bed
When you find out that the world is round, everything is rearranged
You gotta hold up the mirror, and share in the blame

(chorus)

Don’t blame the president, don’t blame the king
Don’t blame your history for what might have been
we will be free where the grass is green and the lion is tame
if we just hold up the mirror now and share in the blame