So history unwinds Reveals another piece of time And all your alcohol born dreams Well they're not as real as mine Now the puzzle doesn't fit So we'll force it till it does Till the boundaries have blurred And till they move it in reverse And I'll stop worrying about the same things That I once did as a child And all the while I'm drinking poison With my eyes open wide And I've forgotten every word To songs my father used to sing I've been so scared about the future All the change that it will bring So I turn my back on lovers And I set off down this road And the pen, it hits the paper And the story book unfolds Except, I have no control The end is inevitable It may not yet be written But I'm braced for the fall I start to think of friends I've lost And I start to feel small Oh, the futility of life And the beauty of it all It's fun to feel so powerless It's no stone in a bowl That's what we are Throw me a rose, someone