I Don't Want to Go

It is the summer of 2010 I'm walking 'round the island The sun is glowing red and fading slow I am all alone with my old friend Psilocybin And that sun is blazing a brighter red than I've ever seen before And the woman that I love is working at the station And in two days from now, I'll leave again And it stops me in my tracks To feel a strange sensation That I've not felt since I don't remember when I don't want to go I don't want to go It is late summer 1999 And I just dropped off a friend of mine In the old car that I have but I do not own And there's a song called "Drifting" By Jimi Hendrix on my radio And the tears have never rained down quite as much as this before My job at the mall Pays me just fine And my room at the house is small but it's mine And in two weeks from now We'll all off go off to college Why now when everything was fine? I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go away and leave you here The days turn into weeks and years So soon, too soon before we know I don't want to go It is Christmas time of '84 I'm watching the old video Of me, my brother and my mother Laughing on the couch And my father leaves the camera To get into the frame with us And my mother's holding all of us The way she always does Someday there'll be a last time That we are all together When it is I do not get to know But I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go away and leave you here The days turn into weeks and years So soon, too soon before we know And I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go It is the dawn of 2020 I'm still working on my vision I'm still wishing for a love to call my own And I am healthy and I savor The fruits of all my labor Life is good these days Although I'm still alone And the woman that I love Is waiting for me somewhere And I have faith she's somewhere close to me now And I'm a sucker for a pretty face And more so for temptation And I'll miss the party but I should head on home for now I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go away and leave you here The days turn into weeks and years So soon, too soon before we know I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go I don't want to go