Light slowly gives way

To the wind now it sways

The remains of the day

Time it marches alone

To a beat of its own

This can't go on

And on, and on!

And it feels like

A life rewinding

All my dreams

To dust are grinding

Gone is all my levity

So long I've prayed and cried

Yet it all seems tossed aside

Bound and locked

I hold no key

And in the aftermath

I feel my own demise

And in the aftermath

The smoke it starts to rise

Time moving backwards

Retrograde

Reversing in orbit

Tied to the stake

Retrograde

There's a stop in the clock

That's counting

And the tension's slowly mounting

Harnessing my energy

The pressure won't subside

I slowly die inside

My struggle now is to break free

In the aftermath there is no ray of light

And in the aftermath nothing moves forward

Time moving backwards

Retrograde

Reversing in orbit

Not much more can I take

Retrograde

Time it marches alone

To a beat of its own

But I forge on!

I see it very clear

In the aftermath

I know my time is near

Time moving backwards

Retrograde

Reversing in orbit

Tied to the stake

Retrograde