Fade Away
Dreaming through this waking life a mental haze sets in.
A fearful thought to stay alive where the images begin.
Drifting into isolation more and more each day.
Feeling the future all too clearly, trying to move through the strain.
Feeling I'm trapped inside a longing and distant mind.
Don't want to go outside nowhere is safe from time.
I need a place of security, to help me to understand.
The thing that we all must go through, with the slipping of the sands.
Watching the years go by. They start to undermine.
Why can't I slow the time? The flaw that's in our design.
And eventually...
I start to fade away, another prisoner of time.
I try to stop the days, but soon everything that's mine,
will have to adapt to another life.
Visions that haunt me every day, I know that I'll have to face.
Losing everything that I know and leaving without a trace.
Watching the years go by. Helpless to stem the tide.
Why can't I say goodbye? Fearing the break inside.
And eventually...
I start to fade away, soon I won't recognize.
I try to stop the days, but it's only a matter of time.
Maybe there's a safe space, somewhere beyond this test.
I want to believe it's true over a fate of nothingness.
I just can't fade away! To be over and done with life!
But I cannot find a way to escape the hands of time!
I hope it's all a laugh on the other side…