Our lives are filled with many faces,
Seasons change and we forget their names.
Passing strangers         unfamiliar places
Someday soon you'll learn it's all a game.

Wake up        realise that there's nothing left.
Did she mean it when she said 'forever'?
Daydream   storm comes   every thing you have
Feeling things you always thought you'd never.

Once upon a time you had convictions,
Principles are only for the young.
Soon you'll find there's nothing to believe in.
Soon you'll find there's nowhere you belong.

Many years pass and everything changes.
Teardrops    oceans    every day it rains
Those we loved when we were so much younger
Leave us and only despair remains.

We were hopeful, we were optimistic,
Now we're old and tired and alone.
Those we loved have left us in the morning.
Empty bed, a house no longer home.

In those years most people give up hoping,
Only few continue to believe.
Those who loved once will live on forever.
*Find peace in your own eternity.

Awake, awake my little Boy!
Thou wast thy Mother’s only joy:
Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep?
Awake! thy Father does thee keep.

“O, what land is the Land of Dreams?
What are its mountains, and what are its streams?
O Father, I saw my Mother there,
Among the lillies by waters fair.

Among the lambs clothed in white
She walked with her Thomas in sweet delight.
I wept for joy, like a dove I mourn—
O when shall I return again?”

Dear child, I also by pleasant streams
Have wandered all night in the Land of Dreams;
But though calm and warm the waters wide,
I could not get to the other side.

“Father, O Father, what do we here,
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far
Above the light of the Morning Star.”

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.