Storm Drain

The dried up blood of guilt and shame All the mistakes that I've made Are carved into the concrete that have once made up these city streets I wonder if they wash away, from heavy downpour, another rain Like fleeting years, that I have second guessed Get flushed down the storm drains But I know I've learned From these years and what they left behind The lessons of the hardship That repeat when we don't grow to change And they seem like never ending Don't look back With a weary head and a heart full of regrets Don't look back 'Cause you are not defined not by your past Searching for some shelter from the gloominess of life The winter grey throughout the years that's eating you alive Worried about the footprints you think you'll leave behind But nothing stays with the passing of the times Now all that's left are memories of drunken nights in high school years And I've realised that there's nothing for me there Now all that's left are memories that wilted like the autumn leaves I've realised that there's nothing for me there