Who was I then?
That one whom you all remember so clearly

I used to hate, and distrust everything
Was so quick to anger and pain

I was deeply hurt and saddened
To the point of intense masochism

I did things I wasn’t proud of
Which led to more things I’m not proud of

I led a life filled with regrets
And I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel

I said things that I’m still not proud of
And probably hurt more of you than I can remember

You representing all the people who were there
And all the people who remotely cared about what I felt

Who am I now?
If I’m no longer the one you remember

I laugh and I cry so freely
No longer bound by my own messed up rules

I long, I want, I touch
In a way I couldn’t allow myself to before

I love harder and more easily
For the chains of hatred no longer hold me down

I am light and free
Freed from the pains of the past and weight of the future

I am who I choose to be
I am a bird
I am a mountain
I am a rock
I am a human being like you
I am what I’ve become when I became me

I am and will always be

We just don’t know anymore
And it’s all gotten way too
Complicated
Nothing is as easy as it used to be
When we just sat around and laughed
You’d tell your stupid jokes
And I’d share mine
And it was all okay
But now times are hard
Everyone feels so forced
And everything seems so wrong
We had it all
Then it was gone
Just heartache and memories
Left in its wake
I broke your heart
And you broke mine
And I cried a thousand times that night
And nothing would go right.
How do we fix this?
If we’re not sure how it broke.
You said those words
And I said mine
If only, if only we could take them back
but we can’t
So I’ve decided
To keep it moving
Cause I’m sick and tired
Of the pain you’ve brought me
If you didn’t remember me
Would you be sad?
Because I wouldn’t be
So maybe it’s better for us all
If everything were left in the past
And nothing is ever like it used to be.

It was time to lay it all down
Time to let go
Of those past hatreds and fears
The ones that would keep a brother down
It was time to lay it all aside
Move forward with our two feet
Scarcely breathing, daring
Watching out for one another
It was time to lay it all away
Time to cast aside
The chains that rattled as we walked
The bonds we could not hide
It was time
Yes time
Time to do the things we’d regret
Time to love and forget
It was time
To go on and on
Chasing the dreams we couldn’t hang on to
Flying and falling
Like Icarus, we dove into the sea
There was a time
Way back yonder
And the things you hardly remember
The ones we’d never forget
Time had a way about it
Time, mystical and divine
Endlessly short
Our time, your time
Simply, Time.

We could not run, we could not hide
We could not leave the great divide
We could not see to scream, to speak
We could not hear to cry, to weep
We were not here, we were not there
We were not us, we were the air
We flowed with life, we flowed and flowed
Like great dwarfs bright, we were so cold
Amidst the likeness that we showed
We found ourselves unfree and old.