Today is the day
Blast loud music in my ears
Live a life that has no fears
And pretend that are no years
Ticking past my ears
Out the window.
Because it’s
A long long path to follow when
I want to skip and scream down then
All the way until I reach the future
But I can’t go there
Oh, not yet
But you dare me too
Then I’ll bet
It takes me only 2 long years to make my way home.
Starting part is marked here
The day I learned true fear
And stared a gun down its barrel.
It was positioned between two eyes
In place of a mouth, full of lies
And I knew it familiar simply ’cause
Guns like these always run in families.
And looking back, I think to myself,
How’d I get buried in this filth,
Remembering the days, I was just too precious
Asking about words that begin with ‘n’
Knowing Budweiser before the alphabet
And knowing all the courthouse officials all by name.
But at the same time, I know,
It wasn’t a performance for show,
But something with one person to blame.
But today,
Today’s the day I want to scream my tale,
Not be worried about if I fail,
No worries about Harvard, Princeton or Yale,
But take the moment to just exhale,
Take a step off this old trail,
And from my life, remove its sad curtail.
Because it’s
A long long path to follow when
I want to skip and scream down then
All the way until I reach the future
But I can’t go there
Oh, not yet
But you dare me too
Then I’ll bet
It takes me only 4 long years to make my way home.