Ithaka - Twenty Years Ago Today lyrics

Twenty years ago today. Twenty years ago today you saw the outside world for the first time.Twenty years ago today you saw your mother and father's faces for the first time. Twenty years ago today, you began a life full of sorrow and happiness. Twenty years ago today you began to hear something other than muffled sounds and the sound of your mother's heartbeat. You heard yourself cry for the first time ...you heard others cry too. You heard electronic devices and doors opening and closing and a lot of voices, some melodic, others harsh and ugly. You have lost and found so much since that day, but do no feel much smarter or wiser than you did then. You feel absolutely childlike, Absolutely childlike, naive without experience. But ironically, you are completely ready to handle any success or failure the future will bring. Both of which you've been avoiding like d**h itself No more false expectations. No more lying to yourself. No more waiting for life to begin. No more waiting for things to be perfect, you know they never will be. ...you know they never will be. © Ithaka Darin Pappas © 1986 "Twenty Years Ago Today" From the album: So Get Up & The Lost Acapellas [Sweatlodge Records]