No one knows where the old man goes

No one seems to care

But we pretend and send him on his way

Carried far as the four winds blow

Clouds above and the waves below

He'll be back again but not today

Soon but not today

Soon but not today OK

A drink or two before I quit

A few hits off this cigarette

Tomorrow I'll stop

A bullet barely dodged

The tests came back, I'm still alive

I beat bad choices and survived

Before the final curtain dropped

Maybe I should contemplate

The things in life that I regret

I believe that Heaven waits

But I don't want to see it yet

My checkered past will follow me

Forever like a face tattoo

I wish I'd known back then before

My best years slipped away

Not unexpected lightning struck

A second time I swear

Another sign, another scare

A mounting cosmic debt to pay

Maybe I should contemplate

The things in life that I regret

I believe that Heaven waits

But I don't want to see it yet

Here we made our home

Here we'd always been

But then she said

We don't belong together

And I should let her go

Because her heart's already gone

And it was time that we moved on

Alone here at the end

It seems that once again we're strangers

Once upon a time we had something

But something changed

Once upon a time we had something

Now everything's strange

If these four walls could speak

The tales of us they'd tell

Of boundless days

And love ablaze in splendor

But now the flame's grown cold

I drag my suitcase cross the floor

Turn out the lights and lock the door

Alone here at the end

It seems that once again we're strangers

All together we are waging different wars

What's it for out the door

There is nothing left for you to know so it's up we go

Nothing's more than it was ever meant to be

Meant to be, few will see

There's a darkness shining out of me, shining out of me

No one knows where the old man goes

No one seems to care

But we pretend and send him on his way

Carried far as the four winds blow

Clouds above and the waves below

He'll be back again but not today

Soon but not today

All together we are waging different wars

What's it for out the door

There is nothing left for you to know so it's up we go

Nothing's more than it was ever meant to be

Meant to be, few will see

There's a darkness shining out of me, shining out of me

Once upon a time we had something

But something changed

Once upon a time we had something

Something