Back Way.

Let me run with you tonight
I'll take you on a moonlight ride
There's someone I used to see
But she don't give a damn for me

But let me get to the point, let's roll another joint
And turn the radio loud, I'm too alone to be proud
And you don't know how it feels
You don't know how it feels to be me

from “You Don’t Know How It Feels”
by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

 

Last day of the decade and I’m alone again,

Ruining my makeup ‘cause I’ve straightened up;

All the problems no longer hidden in my curls,

And there they are, looking back at me in the mirror.

Life is a masquerade,

Letting lies lay and burying the truth.

I am waiting for the world to awaken, in vain.

Meditation brings no peace,

Just death upon ego death upon a life renewed, barely out of reach.

I can feel it there, behind the last star of the last galaxy of the last universe.

Out of reach.

I am the sunset, letting out my last rays of warmth and sinking,

Slowly beyond the horizon.

I am the sunrise that never comes,

More than anything, I am lost.

Driving down a dark country road,

In my dreams and waking.

Turns and tall trees, the moon above

And blinking lights in the distance.

I am running down those roads in my sleep,

County road 1977;

State Highway 1681.

 

I will be alright.

I will always be a liar.