This Old World

Well there’s nothing worse than feeling

Like you’re first in line for losing

I thought my life was cruising then it crumbled all away

I had a lot to give but what I gave should be forgotten

Unnoticed like a stranger I’ll surrender for the day

Well this night was an illusion

It came down like an intrusion

I stay up through the night though

I can’t stand it sinking low

I’m a witness to the fight between

The darkness and the light

You’re a mean old world I’m leaving though

I have no place to go

You’re a mean old world I’m leaving though

I have no place to go

This old world took me for a ride

I lost everything I had and then my pride

So much that I don’t know, but I guess I’m set to go

And this old world she took me for a ride

I was raised when I saw ugliness

To try to make some beauty

Found purpose in the duty when

I couldn’t find the shore

What beauty couldn’t lift just simply floated on adrift

Rolling on directionless and lost forevermore

It goes from bad to worse sometimes

Before it can get better

I string some words together and

Just try to speak the truth

I have a lot to get, I hope my lot will be forgiven

Pardon me for living for the time I’m here with you

Pardon me for living for the time I’m here with you

This old world took me for a ride

I lost everything I had and then my pride

So much that I don’t know, but I guess I’m set to go

And this old world she took me for a ride

When I lay my body down I’d like to

Feel the dirt beneath me

And the howling wind could sheath me and

I’d finally be set free

For a moment you can yawn and

Throw my things into a pile

My dawn is finally here and

Yours might come in just a while

My dawn is finally here and

Yours might come in just a while

This old world took me for a ride

I lost everything I had and then my pride

So much that I don’t know, but I guess I’m set to go

And this old world she took me for a ride

This old world she took me for a ride