The Days Are Long

Time and tide, wait for none Gone are days where twilight lasted for hours Locked away Faded joy bled from our skin A battery burnt out far too quickly Robbed of our prime Do you even stop to look around you? Look how far we've come. Do you realise where you are? The days are long, the weeks are short The sands of time erode our dreams Eyes on the end of the road Conditioned to focus on the end One foot in front of the other It's always one step forward and two steps back I know now, what it meant to be free Now I'm running on Memories formed of ones and zeros Trimmed of fat and filtered from the pain Do you even remember? Portfolios of half-baked truths A far cry from our true selves A synthetic core A social pandemic, becoming a death wish Ranked by numbers What have you got to prove? A slave to a system Do you even stop to look around you? Look how far we've come. Do you realise where you are? The days are long, the weeks are short The sands of time erode our dreams Eyes on the end of the road Conditioned to focus on the end One foot in front of the other It's always one step forward and two steps back I know now, what it meant to be free Now I'm running on