Just A Shadow
Can you even remember that fateful day,
When you learnt that the truth is always grey?
You cracked and then you fell.
Didn’t anyone tell you that this life is just so transient?
When did you succumb to superficiality?
You can’t even remember when practicality,
Became so second best.
Didn’t anyone warn you that everything is made to be broken?
And reality will become all the more distant,
When you’ve finally forgotten all that is different,
Between being and feeling alive.
Didn’t anyone tell you this life is just a turbulent accident?
And when you sit there are alone
When no-one else is home,
After all the hours of searching,
Those endless oceans surging
It’s so sad that you’d bleed just to prove you’re alive.
When did you forget that all things return to dust?
And all those times you’ve been so pulled in
By turning your back on the world again,
Sometimes you thought you’d never go back.
Did you ever think it’s enough to die, and then you’ll be alive?
And do you remember when you woke to find you’d disappeared
Back into the nothingness you feared?
It may be something once well designed,
It doesn’t matter though, now you’re resigned:
You’re a shadow of the man you used to be.
And yet you remember when life was just a beautiful accident.
When you learnt that the truth is always grey?
You cracked and then you fell.
Didn’t anyone tell you that this life is just so transient?
When did you succumb to superficiality?
You can’t even remember when practicality,
Became so second best.
Didn’t anyone warn you that everything is made to be broken?
And reality will become all the more distant,
When you’ve finally forgotten all that is different,
Between being and feeling alive.
Didn’t anyone tell you this life is just a turbulent accident?
And when you sit there are alone
When no-one else is home,
After all the hours of searching,
Those endless oceans surging
It’s so sad that you’d bleed just to prove you’re alive.
When did you forget that all things return to dust?
And all those times you’ve been so pulled in
By turning your back on the world again,
Sometimes you thought you’d never go back.
Did you ever think it’s enough to die, and then you’ll be alive?
And do you remember when you woke to find you’d disappeared
Back into the nothingness you feared?
It may be something once well designed,
It doesn’t matter though, now you’re resigned:
You’re a shadow of the man you used to be.
And yet you remember when life was just a beautiful accident.