That’s Sly and his brother and sister Freddy and Rose along with Larry Graham on vocals. Cynthia Robinson was playing trumpet. She’s one of the greatest female trumpeters ever. She died only 6 weeks ago on November 23, 2015. You will be missed Cynthia!
Everybody is a star.
Who could rain chases the dust away.
Everybody wants to shine.
Who will come out on a cloudy day?‘Tis the sun that loves you ’round.
When the system tries to bring you down.
Every had to shine at night.
You don’t need darkness to do what you think is right.Everybody is a star.
I can feel it when you shine on me.
I love you for who you are.
Not the one you feel you need to be.Ever catch a falling star?
Ain’t no stopping ’til it’s in the ground.
Everybody is a star.
One big circle goin’ round and round.Shine, shine, shine, shine.
We are all narcissists now!
Honestly, I think Sly was onto something here. Narcissism is present in most every single human being. It’s just a question of degree – of how narcissistic you are. There are normal healthy levels of narcissism, and then as it gets more extreme, narcissism gets more and more unhealthy. At the far end of the spectrum, it merges with sociopathy in malignant narcissism to the point where it is hard to tell the narcissist from the sociopath. Now we are at the monsters like Ted Bundy, one of the most famous malignant narcissists of all time.
But unhealthy levels of narcissism are all tied up with sociopathy anyway, as the two conditions have a lot in common and are somewhat similar. All of the Cluster B personalities tend to merge and overlap into something like “Total Asshole Disorder”, “Complete Psycho Disorder”, “Get the Hell Away from Me, You Monster Disorder”, etc.
These Cluster B types have what is known as “high conflict personalities.” Everywhere they go in life, they leave a tornado-like swath of chaos and destruction to varying degrees. Why? Because that’s what they do. That’s what Cluster B people are like – this is their basic style of living.
