Square One

I start to look back at myself

I'll wipe the slate and dust the shelf

Finish the chapters in my head

Rewrite the story, start again

The fabric of a childish dream

Is ripped apart at every seam

I'll walk alone tonight

Remind myself of where and what I've seen

It's just pouring rain

But I didn't know that at 14

It seems that all the things I've done

Have brought me back where I begun

I don't know where, to go from here

I close my eyes, only to see

You're a stranger looking back at me

Completely

I woke up, rolled beneath the trees

Just washed up, all my things

They were lost at sea

I walked up, and left the shore

In search of, almost anything more

I tore up all the lines in time

And I forgot what I knew about being alive

Being alive

It seems that all the things I've done

Have brought me back where I begun

I don't know where, to go from here

I close my eyes, only to see

You're a stranger looking back at me

Completely

Go try to bring to life those dreams

That died when you grew up it seems

Not all the things you love have changed

Your personality stays the same

I know the future, when I saw clearly

The road less travelled, is often weary

You may go blindly, and with no regrets

The world we've brighten

With your self respect