Forlorn and hating life The swine that feels the sudden strife Has come and gone on tomorrows wings Has fled this place of hopes and dreams
A time thus robbed and cant obtain A simple freedom to sustain When this life has payed its final debt The reaper comes to collect
An eternity goes by before we notice what is gone And then we see what we couldnt see What was there just yesterday is gone for good A life wasted trying to get back what we never had
A single tear a cascade of weeping uncontrolled All the past comes rushing back The memories so hard forgotten a flood of wasted time Wasted again in this emptiness nothing to cling to
Fear of losing the only grip obtained through constant struggle gained Fear of dying alone without ever saying goodbye Fear of fear and all that is misunderstood Fear of living in this cold lonesome dingy place
A ragged man pulls himself out of bed Only to face another day of being alone Only to be rejected again by those who once knew him Only to suffer another cold night without comfort
A ragged man tries to find another meal Only to spit on and beet down and made to go away Only to try and stave off the pain in his emty stomach Only to find a meager half eaten burger
A vet who risked his own life So we could have the things hes trying to get So we could complain if we dont like it So we can try and change what doesnt work Not too be spat on and made to go away
I didnt ask him to do what he did I never knew him so what difference does it make Im not the one who spit on him It wasnt me who beet him down
All those it wasnt me's and I didnt do it That has all been said before but how many times have you passed a man on the street holding a sine that reads: HOMELESS DISABLED VET PLEASE HELP GOD BLESS and just passed him by without a second glance or thought of him. You may as well have spit on him or beet him down or told him to go away.
All the what ifs and if onlys he's already asked himself So this ragged tired man gets wasted again.