LIFE-TIME

That only goes one way.

You turn around and "Pow!"

You're in the future.

Now we all are strangers

In a world we never made.

Sometimes I get lonely,

And sometimes I feel afraid.

Facing brand new dangers,

We forget about old sorrow.

And see the present only

As the past becomes tomorrow.

Some think Time's a stream,

Or an illusion, or a jail.

I think it's an ocean

Where you sink if you don't sail.

Maybe it's a dream

We only live while someone sleeps,

But I still have the notion

That we're playing it for keeps.

Nothing lasts forever

But the errors that you've made.

You won't feel so clever

When your dues are finally paid.

And, like a pinball wizard

In a video arcade,

I wonder, "How the hell

You get a replay?"

Drifting with the flow

You wonder where you'll finally land.

Someday, you may know,

But you will never understand.

No one's going to come

And take you gently by the hand,

And lead you to the throne

When this is over.

Who's lurking in the dark:

"The moment you're not watching,

It's behind you."