Life Passes By

A white wash over a picket fence

A slate of unfortunate events

And life passes by

A lover whose name has faded

A life for nothing traded

And life passes by

Being set free on gilded wings

Cast aside by caged kings

And life passes by

The dreams I wanted so

Mocked by a flighty crow

And life passes by

It’s never what I wanted

It’s the life I’ve always hunted

It’s the one that passes by

It’s the one that makes me cry

It’s the life gone to hell

That makes me yell

It’s the pain that is not mine

The existence in decline

The sanity that slips away

The sad song of the jay

And life passes by

The sleep that slides in on silver wings

The joy for which happiness springs

And life passes by

The sounds of a spider in her web

The will of life that now shall ebb

And life passes by

The promise of choices that fill

The power of ones free will

And life passes by

It’s the game of illusions

It’s jumping to the wrong conclusions

It’s persuasions that strangle

It’s the calling of an angel

It’s the darkness that comes for me

That is the ticket to flee

Crying in the middle of the night

Making things feel a bit more right