Closer than today
Far away from your castle in the sky
There’s an old man sitting next to your skin
Telling stories of yesterday
The day that would never come.
Hallelujah! Oh the stories he can tell.
The spiderwebs of almost
Just beyond your reach.
Sometimes you would listen
Sometimes you would fly
But mostly you just wish the old man would die.
Chorus
For yesterday is gone
Tomorrow will not come
If only you would listen to a wise old man
Instead you are still drawing circles in the sand
Forever always sounds the same
You will never be closer than today
Still you fight phantom faces in your dreams
With the old man’s laughter in your ears
You won’t dare to ever look down
It might not be that far to fall.
Caught between a hard place and a rock
Carefully constructed by your own design.
Today is your chisel
Use it well my fairy prince
But most of all let the old man live.
Chorus
For yesterday is gone
Tomorrow will not come
If only you would listen to a wise old man
Instead you are still drawing circles in the sand
Forever always sounds the same
You will never be closer than today
Bridge
Scatter your dreams to the wind
Break down the tower of your vanity
Walk away with feet of clay
Forever always sounds the same
You will never be closer than today
Let history bury their dreams
Chorus
But yesterday is gone
Tomorrow will not come
If only you would listen to a wise old man
Instead you are still drawing circles in the sand
Forever always sounds the same
You will never be closer than today
Let history bury their dreams
Bury their dreams
Bury their dreams
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