I made promises I could not keep,
I pulled the clothes but failed to sleep.
I woke to see a few hundred dawns,
but found I had my clothes still on.
I tried to live and lived to try,
keeping both eyes on the prize.
I didn't like that awful growl,
and the poking at my frontal lobe.
I know that I've slipped through my hands
But I didn't chase it like a man
And saw things that no man should see
But that went dead so long ago
Now is it progress if it fails
And winds up in the garbage pail
So many miles from here to there
But still I'm sitting in this chair
I knew the days were rushing by
Would catch them all I didn't try
So how did it become today?
So many things we did not say
We'll try to dance and give it one more
The mirror's not my enemy
But I don't care for what I see
The vision's close, but not the same
Is what's engraved into my brain
The things I loved, I held, I touched
The things I loved, I feared too much
In a fearful twist of cruelty
The whole become a memory
I stood up straight and walked so tall
Too bad I walked into the wall
