The winds of change are around you
and you can’t help but see
that you are closer to death
closer to disease
but what scares you the most
is that notebook you wrote
which you sat with one summer
and filled with your memories.

memories that have faded
as time’s slowly passed
it’s seeped in through the crevices
and burst out through the cracks
and now that notebook you made
on those long summer days
is a constant reminder that there is no turning back.

and now you play with the hand
that you drew yourself
if the number are low
you can blame nobody else
and it’s getting to you,
you don’t know what you’ll do,
and then you realise

You haven’t had that long to play,
you haven’t had that big of a stage,
you’ve got so much more to say
Stop looking back, just seize the day.


and you Remember the seed
that you put in the ground
you were only five years young
and now it stands so tall and proud
and the voice in your head
that beckons responsibility
was so very quiet,
and now it is so fucking loud


Now the dogs lies by the fire
because he doesn’t like the cold
you two used to run around all day
but now he’s too old
so you just look into his eyes
and remember times that once were
soon he won’t recognize his name
he wont come back when he’s told

but he’ll be an emotion on a photograph
like when you started school
your hair was such a mess
but you thought you were so cool
and you wish you could go back,
and live in the past,
and then you realise

You haven’t had that long to play,
you haven’t had that big of a stage,
you’ve got so much more to say
so stop looking back, just seize the day.

Now your alive in the glory
of the days that have past
you have the sun on your neck
and your face is dirt black
with dirt you later trampled
into your living room floor
you hear your mothers screams
they make you want a do it some more

They’re sharp and there loud
but they’re unflinchingly nostalgic
and she is pissed off and your scared
and it’s all so awfully tragic
because it’s making you yearn
and its making you lust
for the innocence you had
until you grew up

and now it’s cast aside and left,
it’s thrown into the gutter
and you look upon the world
through the eyes of another
the stardust is gone
humanity is uncovered
you see hills and not mountains
you see a house but not a home
you were oh so surrounded
now your oh so alone

and it is closing you in
and it is burning your eyes
and you just want to scream
but then you realise

You haven’t had that long to play,
you haven’t had that big of a stage,
you’ve got so much more to say
so stop looking back, just seize the day.