prelude

candlelight flickers across these hands that write

i sit and ponder the past and life

just wishing and wanting an answer tonight

and so i am thinking and wondering asking why

do things go wrong when they have been right

where we used to frolic and laugh

we cry

life's past its prime

i wish i could stop the hands of time

the end is nigh

a tick and a tock and the sands of time

slip from the clock as they pass us by

as i'm sitting and watching the passers by

stranded high

imprisoned and locked in the land of my mind

the living monotony hanging by

to limit and smother a man this shy

and to describe it's impossible though i can but try

and now as i lie

a shiver runs ominous down my spine

as a vision

a prophecy clouds my sight

i predict an apocalypse happens tonight

clandestine

our figurative god has cast the die

has triggered the goal of his grand design

and the bigger the bomb is the faster we die

abandon fright

and give up the worry and anger and spite

the difference is none if you stand and fight

so sisters and brothers hold hands

unite

while dan says hi

and sings you a song as his last goodbye

bye bye bye