A Lifetime Away

Golden gates and stolen arches time goes on but the beat marches so slow

Getting caught up in the riptide as the water pulls me down down below

There's...no place for me to be I can't see nowhere to go

So I vanish in the mist as the fog rolls into San Francisco

I tell you there's a friend in me, but I can't keep to the claim

Oh I got a million words in mind, but nothing left to say

There's a whisper on the western wind, but its someone else's name

And you're one bridge, thirteen miles, and a lifetime away

Like Peter Pan in Neverland I'll never grow up if I can stay full

But this time Captain Hook brought more than the shadow of my child could handle

With twin peaks of love and grace I just end with my face in the dirt

And there's fire in my heart, but I need her counterpart so I don't get burnt

I tell you there's a friend in me, but I can't keep to the claim

Oh I got a million words in mind, but nothing left to say

There's a whisper on the western wind, but its someone else's name

And you're one bridge, thirteen miles, and a lifetime away

Despite the pain and misery I don't wish things had happened differently

As we hide amidst the rubble just two pieces in a puzzle of one mystery

I sometimes hate but it don't last

I get stuck buried in the ash and it's cold

But I know someday I'll rise make use of all my past demise, release my soul

I tell you there's a friend in me, but I can't keep to the claim

Oh I got a million words in mind, but nothing left to say

There's a whisper on the western wind, but its someone else's name

And you're one bridge, thirteen miles, and a lifetime away