Black Coffee

Someone I know once said, You cant stop the second-hand from turning

Its always ticking, never sticking still

Someone I know told me, Dont let regret fill you up

Youve gotta take the best and leave the rest behind

Because its now or never all together, here

What do you think our dreams are telling us

I consider way too much

We should be laughing instead crying,

Living instead of dying

I dont wanna wake up, and see my lifes been washed away

Like a movie I once saw when I was young

Is this all we get when we add up twenty some-odd years of growing up

We go to college to make some dollars, yeah

To find the real world is just a figment in the end

What do you think our dreams are telling us

I consider way too much

the possibility, we may no longer be subject to adolescent responsibilities

when push comes to shove we all make mistakes

our ages go up and they raise the stakes

I got a five day block of a nine to five 401K job keeping me alive

Rising mortgage rates and credit bills

I take three vitamins and two sleeping pills a night

And I buy all this stuff to fill my apartment, but its never enough

Because it could never amount to whats called true love

You gotta find it now before it becomes unheard of

And I got two weeks off, and two least cars, and no backyard, and one garage

But none of that will matter to me anyway

If Im going to be sleeping diagonally

And I plan for retirement

Did I mention addiction to caffeine, I drink seven cups of coffee a day without cream

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Someone I know once said, You cant stop the second-hand from turning

Its always ticking, never sticking still