Song Description
Its about questioning one's own importance and realizing mortality and ageing.
Song Length |
4:28 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Rock - Easy Listening |
Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Troubled, Gloomy |
Subject |
Philosophy, World |
Similar Artists |
The Police, Simon & Garfunkel |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
We?ll never grow old
I watch the water pelting down from every corner of a grey and dreary, dark, November sky.
My life?s in order but I still feel like I?m lacking something meaningful to justify my time.
My once determined sense of purpose relegated to the toils of an ordinary life?
It all seemed easier when youth and non-convention glazed the eyes I used to watch the world go by.
And we used to say ? it wouldn?t be this way; we?d throw it all away before we?d reach this day?
I?ve replaced principle with love and admiration for the beautiful, exotic, and sublime.
The idealistic causes I once championed proved futile, leaving me with nothing to do but survive?
My self-perceived importance and sphere of influence have gradually shrunk down to my front door?
My sense of foresight and my fatalistic cynicism render me both heartbroken and bored?
And we used to say ? it wouldn?t be this way; we?d throw it all away before we?d reach this day?
And we?ll never grow old?
I watch the hit-parade of faceless politicians vying endlessly for nominal control.
I blandly exercise my ?passionate? opinion of which lesser evil should assume the role?
I?ve reached the point of view that life, and birth, and consciousness are not the sacred notions we believe?
But rather, all thing living must consume for their survival ? making life itself a cancerous disease?