Something about the way time passes, something about the way it leaves me behind.

And scenes from yesterday just keep playing in my mind.

It’s been a long time since I felt the way I’m feeling right now.

There’s may still be time to change my life, but to tell the truth I just don’t know how.

Like a leaky water faucet my dreams are dripping on the floor,

and I don’t know how to stop it and even if I did i’m not I sure care anymore.

I paid my dues, I planned real big, I really tried to make it work.

But it seems the higher I climbed, the worse the falling hurt.

I’ve never been a quitter so I got back up every time life knocked me down.

But I can’t promise I’ll be standing when the next hit rolls around.

Yeah, It’s easy to judge when you’re hanging on the other side

It’s easy just to turn your head from the safe place where you hide

But you aren’t the one whose life is turned completely upside down

It’s not your Heart that’s torn and discarded on the ground

And yeah things are still looking good as they always have for you

Life’s still just as easy—you never have too much to do

Just raise your glass and tap it until it makes a clinking sound

Make a toast to everybody, get out your purse, and buy another round.

But in the middle of this faceless lost and lonely crowd

I stand here all alone hollow-eyed while the music beats so loud

And I’m standing in the shards once more of my own dreams on the ground

Your laughter rings in my ears while my hope is at the lost and found.

And no, I don’t want your sympathy and I sure as hell don’t need a friend

I think that right now a touch from you would finally do me in

When it’s all said and done, you can still knock on my door

But you and I both know I wont be answering anymore.

Perhaps tomorrow might’ve become a different way to live

But I know now, I’ve given all I had to give.

So with one last look I’m walking; please don’t follow me out the door

And tomorrow when you wake up, I won’t be here anymore

You’ll barely even notice I was ever here at all

Because those are the cards dealt to a hand that was too small.

Revised final May 27, 2024

A Divine