another summer comes and goes
i hope to have about 80 more of these, but who knows

the future, it is taunting you
but i still have the morning to look forward to

and it comes so quietly
that it skips over everybody

but you will lie awake
there are no pills for you to take
you are the wide-eyed kid
that everybody claims they've been

interconnected eyelashes
babies screaming, "ashes ashes, we all fall down."

designed to appeal to the masses
designed to fit securely in a casket

this isn't my life
this isn't my life
this isn't my life
this isn't my life

people say that they just want to live
so they step inside a booth, and they forgive

a higher power somewhere in the empty sky
for being happy and not wanting to die

and i hope you find out you are dreaming
and i hope you wake up softly screaming

but i will be here still
another shadow on the hill
the plane, it crashes
ashes ashes
but fire is just so beautiful

an old man over a cradle
saying,
"you will pick up where I leave off

'cause I am tired and not able,

my characters have been killed off"

this isn't my life
this isn't my life
this isn't my life
this isn't my life