There was a girl who would dance in the stars
She forgot who she was when the dark turned to dawn
And the sun once came up in its yellow and gold
And told her to rejoice because she'd grown to be old.
There once was a child who loved to pretend
In the storm of his mind, the stout trees would bend
Hills slept as dragons and old sticks were swords
But the dragons kept sleeping and he could find no wars.
An old man was sleeping on a dark green park bench
He dreamed of the nights with his love he had spent
And then he woke up in the afternoon light
And tried to be happy, because they'd all been right
They said "Once you live past the dark horrors of night
Surely, somehow, it will all be all right."
Graduate with honors, a wife and a job
You'll be set 'till the night comes -- and you meet God.
The fight had been over for many years now
But it still didn't feel like he'd won, somehow.
White snow turns brown when the winter is done
It's hard to keep fighting when they all say you've won.