Wasted Life

Music and Lyric by David W. Jacobsen
Copyright 2000. All Rights Reserved.

Just move on they told him
as he stopped to take a peek
At the world outside his skylight
that would call him mild and meek

And years they passed in cars
that ride so smooth you never know
With windows tinted from the inside

The mirror reflects an image like a knife into his heart
A wasted life he thinks
A wasted life he drinks to forget
How he has nothing to forget

Don't you try they told her
as she went to take the earth
You haven't got the things you need
your struggles won't bring you mirth

And chances passed so close
that she could feel them slip away
Denied the things most desired

The mirror reflects an image like a knife into her heart
A wasted life she thinks
A wasted life she drinks to forget
How she has nothing to forget

He looks at her, she looks at him
their lives together tied
By law, by younger ones
but one day passions will subside

Emotions pass and leave them
as just skeletons of thirst
Cannibals of other's dreams
now lost

The mirror reflects an image like a knife into their hearts
A wasted life they think
A wasted life they drink to forget
How they have nothing to forget