As the World Turns

I'm checkin' out, checking on a late night flight

LAX a horror show

Still I'd rather be here sweatin' out another take-off

Than living in the valley below

And I never get comfort in the earth or sky

It's my belief they're not my home

The world spins one way, but I go another

Against the grain, one often stands alone

As the world turns, it slaps me hard

As the world turns, it tells me I'm weak

As the world turns, I drop my guard

As the world turns, I turn the other cheek

I sing

Hey oh, slaps me hard

Hey oh, slaps me hard

Hey oh, slaps me hard

I put it all together in the exercise yard

Dreams that die too easy in the vengeance of time

Some values given up for others

And this, I think, is the essence of our tragedy:

Our fallenness, our bond with one another

And you always hear about it in the evening news

You get it in the morning paper

But if you think it's always gonna be this way

I say it's gonna change, much sooner than later

Many people wanting the elixir of youth

Through defeats and through disasters

Stifling the only thing that changes it all

Love is what I'm going after

Achievements always falling into yesterday

I'm a pupil in an Intro class

New cars, travels, love affairs cannot provide

The way out of life's iron cast