Keep Taking Me Back

Keep taking me back

through the years

I've never seen.

Put me in the state

of mind where I've

never been.

Let me see the

building up and

tearing down

of our dreams.

Help me learn

from our mistakes--

I believe nothing's

what it seems.

Through these

journeys my eyes

have seen the good

and the bad--

the things we have

wanted and the

things that we've had.

We have reached for

the stars, looking for

more to learn--

desiring so much

that our sanity never

returned.

Keep taking me back--

fill my mind with things

I've never seen.

Let me see where I lack

so I won't believe in

madmen's dreams.

Keep taking me back!

Well, I know deep inside

we'll never fully

understand the past.

I wasn't there

when the yesterday's

were born -- I'm one of

the last.

My heart pounds within

me when my mind drifts

that way -- into

recurrences of our greed

and of battles night and

day.

It's a sad, sad world,

but I can't cry anymore.

I still see the past

living in me and you.

Back to the present

I'm hurled; my sense's

close that mental door,

as life's realities

come back in view.

Keep taking me back!

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