[Verse 1]
Staring in the mirror
He looked in his own eyes
Glaring back at him was something that he despised
It was something that he had hoped he'd never be
He became the one thing that he called his enemy
So, he reflected there for hours
Upon hours he said
"I was once a good man, I had dreams that I could see
But I lost my way, became a slave to another day."
Another dollar, was all he wanted
But he had a fallen
To fast
Got a little to deep
Characteristics like that of a sheep
Hurt his soul
And continued to feed
'Till it wore him down
Then it broke him down
Piece by pieces were all that were left of a man
Who couldn't stand to see
What he'd be
[Verse 2]
What he'd become
So he turned to run
Down the road he came
Back to the stars
Chasing that sun
That was setting to fast
And he had to have it
Cause it's all he ever wanted
Ever since he was a young kid
Guess the brightness enticed him right
But he was stuck in a jail term
A sentence of life
Depravation
Of real living
The feeling inside
Of a slow k**ing
All sitting waiting wishing
But time is never forgiving when it's wasted
And I'm wasted
So can I face this?
f** that
Evasive action
Gaining some traction
Pacing with my laps in
Racing with my faction
Everlasting in a nation of slaveship
[Verse 3]
To be that guide in the sky where the clouds all reside
In the night be the brightest of lights
But in time I guess all that we see are the signs of money
What we wanted to be remains only a dream
A shattered reality inside of our heads
Just memories lost in the depths
In the darkness behind tired eyes
I've seen people grow from new born baby cries
Into a life un encouraged to try
They live and they die
Without ever leaving a mark on the planet
One minute they're here
The next they have vanished
It never turns out
Quite like they had planned it
Justify but they don't understand this
Like
Why you gotta try so hard?
Be that guy that you know you aren't
Take a breath
Puff up your chest
To protect
Your a**ets
So that you can invest more
Money into something you can't even see
Make believe it's everything that you want it to be
Continue harboring the feeling of succeeding
And needing to be the one feeding at the top of the tree
Your pinnacles begging to reflect more
Cynical images everyday
It's harder to stay awake
Don't want to see it fade to grey
But you continually work there
Day after Day
Your stuck in a cage
Filling with rage
And coming down with a mad bad case of age
Age of man
That truly can't be freed
So he plants his seed
In hopes to exceed everything
He'd become
Now the stars they run
And there ain't no sun
Shining down on him today
Cause he had just betrayed
The one thing he spent his whole life trying to save
Up for
Couldn't ignore
All the things that he swore
He had witnessed before
The demons kept teasing his mind
By never giving him a sign
To all that he wanted to find
The meaning of life
And what might happen to us all when we die
Journey up to a place high in the sky
Or fall in the earth
And lay with the dirt
A life long search
Ending in hurt
Is this what we deserve?
When we are all buried with worth