21 Darkest Days of the Year

Cold and dark weekending evening, he felt his heart begin to break
One with stars in his ears can’t understand everything that’s here at stake

These walls can not block out the frost
What I now see everywhere will soon be lost

Just Thursday prior there had been pure joy, prescience of a birthday song
But now it all feels so serious, though logic won’t explain just what is wrong

The fates were cast, no going back
I’ve got the big room now, why can’t I act

Sunset has gone behind me, just can’t chase it down
Childhood about to expire, can’t bring it back around
Oooooh must go through, must go through, oh must go through

As reality shouts a silent scream you want to fall back into the dream
But you can’t go back
And as duality arrives in shades of red you want to crawl back into your head
But you can’t go back, there’s just no turning back

All of life is a vector onward a one-way ticket to some unknown town
Don’t let it get you down, eventually it’ll come back around for…
Young or old we’re all within a greater infancy
There’s more to discover than we can ever know
Oh, it’ll come back around, don’t ever let this get you down

It’s been quite a year, 1978, but we always knew that it wouldn’t last
Just a few more weeks it’ll be 1979, damn, that future is coming fast

These walls will not exist for long
It’s just a matter of time ‘til we hear that song
Because there’s nothing wrong, oh who, no, there’s nothing wrong

En avant, en avant, en avant
Sunset’s gone behind me, I just can’t chase it down, en avant, en avant