Is this it ? Is this (to be) the One ? ....No! It won't work, it never does... they never do It works for others yes! But no! not for me Have seen too many false dawns now I won't fool myself again with thoughts of... Thoughts of El Dorado land.
Just because I've found a new way And it'll feel good for a little while But then it'll go just like they always go Those nice feelings that come They lie to me, they laugh at me Make a fool of me every time Like a mirage Dancing tantalisingly in the distance Only to disappear once you grow near I know their not going to last, not going to stay They'll not take me... not take me to El Dorado land.
But still, maybe... maybe I'll celebrate all the same Just for the hell of it Make believe that this was surely IT this time Yea! I'll get a little drunk and pretend, pretend I've found it at last What I've always been looking for, All those years of looking and never finding Feeding on scraps, vague intuitions, funny dreams and feelings... Even though I know it's not gonna work Knowing that behind it all it was always bound to fail That I'll always be outside those gates looking in Knowing I'm not invited.
II
They talked of a land that was wondrous, marvellous! Not something out there but something here within Of a strength that was golden, that was yours and yours alone That could never be stolen A great treasure that lay inside... that lay within I read their books, I studied their maps And then I set out, I set out for El Dorado land.
I followed them as best I could I tried, I tried but seemed to lose every time I know - I know I did it wrong I always do it wrong Wrong is where I live I think Wrong is where I come from Probably Wrong is where I belong.
I'm old now I watched and waited too long And nothing much really happened And no one...no one came.
To have lived and never to have seen, never to have known El Dorado land.
The Eternal Seeker who in the end never finds what he's looking for. A nice slice of Melancholy LoL Always been a bit of a Seeker, new philosophies and therapies, so many different ways. Trying to heal old wounds and become whole again. The search goes on.