all these days that lay before me all these days that lay behind does time just go on forever whose decision whose design death life wrong right pray will you tell me who decides dark night days light pray will you tell me who divides every year contains its seasons summer winter spring and fall some pass faster than the others some forgotten some recalled long short owned bought gathering trinkets from times tides rich thoughts lost sought still the clock turns and cant be bribed i know i see i hear do you understand the cost in years in tears the weight of the damned that build to lakes then wake and flood cross the land we watch the waves carve out their pre ordained plans each life each grave and then fill each one with sand listen what i say time does not betray every moment cast guaranteed to pass every moment close soon to turn to ghost some to disappear others shadows clear shadows without light soon become just night leaving in our mind what is left behind do you hear what i say every lifes numbered days joined with hourglass sand feel it run through your hands still then no one knows now the true why when and how and when times out of sand will they know who i am