The older I become

The older I become

I don't want to keep
Lookin' back
Thinkin' that the past
Is where I want to be,

No, I want to want
What I'm livin'
I want to need
What's ahead of me.

Something is missing
An element
I can't quite guess
Maybe it's something added
That's mounting to this stress.

I used to be excited
To find out where life was gonna' go
I used to be so anxious
I used to care
I used to want to know.

But the more grow
It's all the same
I still live
With the same complaints
And the more I live this way
The more I see
Now I know what's been lost
Is the belief in possibility

I used to want
To move ahead
But the more I live
I know it just means
One day closer to being dead

I used to think
Something exciting for me,
Had to be in store
But over time
Days fall like snowflakes
And melt away
And now I don't believe that anymore.

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