Aged, unstable
Closed fists, old distant answers
Open hands replaced

True lies bring no pride
As our world runs dry, revised
Assisted by lies

I'll get a life
Where can I find one?
I've chased a dream spun by folly
Fate is not cruel, it is my own psychology
A soul cannot be satisfied by numbers
For those at the summit
Jump off to the base
Peak to perish, garish to cherish
Consecutively nightmarish
What face do I perceive?
Is this really me?
Caught up in the feckless and reckless
Ignoring all the life
I have wasted over time
Was my time truly mine?
Or am I a slave to bloodlines and deadlines?

Decaying, degrading
We take all for granted
Never giving ourselves time
To enjoy what we have
Our clocks are set to different times
If you never got the memo
Metronomes tick at different tempos
So when our time comes to close
We turn it back to avoid letting go

Living in boxes
Offering a view
Of freedom
Modern mirages
Life was never free
Free to work
Enslaved to life
In our world
There are no enemies
Who do we fight to unlink our chains?
Our war? My war? Their war?
Across the land, over the hills, under the caverns
All a reminder:
All our problems originated with us
We are the real enemy
Now tell me what have I missed?
Was this world always like this?

Your smile
Teeth clenched with no joy
Coping, hoping for a boy
Not once or twice, third's the time
One boy, one world
Beautiful horizons
Strength gets wizened
I look back, and I get the message
Receiving pain in vain
Hollow sorrow
Fear of what is near
You see smiles
I see venom behind bones
Never turn back
Knives get thrown
I knew I was hurt
Now it's ingrained, deranged, unchanged

Like a star
Shining brighter than all
Correlation to constellations
Together forever
Until the years burn into ashes
Dusted and thrusted away
Into a memory
Like a star
Fading and passing
But never quite going out
Even as it dies
No one will ever quite forget it all
So when I wake up
Will you still be there for me?
I want to shine like you
But all I can do is pretend
Yet it makes people smile
I shine so brightly
To call out to you
I hope that you see
The brightness of this world
Maybe I really can be like a star