Memento Mori

Have I been awake too long?

I'm taking this way too far

Have I been awake too long?

And then it hits me somewhere right between the eyes

Because I know the cost of time, and I've paid it all my life

Near or far, no matter how close you are

Hopelessly united in entropy

Could it be, the presence of memory

Is all we are, and all that we'll ever be?

Have I been awake too long?

I'm taking this way too far

Have I been awake too long?

And then I tell myself it's just so far away

Back to the old routine that fills my every day

Some pray the holy ghost will save them from the grave

But I know the cost of time, and I've paid it all my life