Garrison Frost - Poetry In Poltergeists lyrics

Youth is just a playground where the idealistic play It's where I made mistakes that got me where I am today I learned how to treat a lady there and how to make a friend Inflicted on me wounds that even time could never mend But I am just a traveler and a solitary man I don't want to be a burden to you now I'm no fine wine, I'm rotted meat and soured milk I dreamt in burlap when I should have dreamt in silk The hatred of the memory fuels the fire in the fight It's all I have now in the twilight of my life But I am just a traveler and a solitary man I don't want to be a burden to you now Though now I'm old I was turned blind when I was young Was taught to stand up tall but was blinded by the sun Now every friend I have is a ghost who's gone away And the poetry in poltergeists is the only game I play What could you do, what could you say? Too hopelessly naive to see we all just wait around 'til our dying day Hope is an expense I can't afford to pay I look down at my watch and it's just tick, tick, ticking time 'til my dying day So why don't you write a song and within it say There's hope and love and peace but you're just really wasting time 'til your dying day But this is just a song about a tired man Who's been broken by the rhythm of the second hand Whose life, I feel, filled with missed opportunity That, somewhere, I was cheated of my destiny But a friend in need is so transparent in his worth And seeing as I've been cursed from now back 'til my day of birth But I am just a traveler and a solitary man I don't want to be a burden to you now Though now I'm old I was turned blind when I was young Was taught to stand up tall but was blinded by the sun Now every friend I have is a ghost who's gone away And the poetry in poltergeists is the only game I play