Lyrics

When I was seventeen I tried to save the
world
But how do you save the world?
In its melting, fiery roar
I found that I’d stopped playing my
guitar
Was too busy for all that
The waiting world could wait no more

A vastness came to view, I was tiny I was
few
With my bigger picture actually quite
small
If I could talk to me then now
I’d say relax and take some time
Don’t give up too much to give your all.

Halfway through and now I know I’ll
never
Fall upon that moment I imagined where
I’d
Settled and resolved
All anxieties be solved
Halfway through I know I may never
know

When I was twenty and my mind began
to spin
A messianic din
Constellations of all stars
Theologies to haul through twisted
darkness
And the beauty that befalls
On the starry ship to mars

I thought that they were prophets
Who would take me round the world
with my bigger picture actually quite
small
If I could talk to me then now
I’d say relax and take some time
Don’t give up too much to give your all.

Halfway through and now I know I’ll
never
Fall upon that moment I imagined where
I’d
Settled and resolved
All anxieties be solved
Halfway through I know I may never
know

In my thirties when I toured so many
towns
Ilfracomb to Parry Sound
Truth more humble than the dream
I had times that were so glamorous and
fun
But I lost a lot of friends
Broke my body for the team

Now I’m at the stage where a disillusion
stays
Loves leaders leave this life before their
time
I am talking to myself
Sunlight and love are greatest wealth
Slow down and be simplicity sublime

Halfway through and now I know I’ll
never
Fall upon that moment I imagined where
I’d
Settled and resolved
All anxieties be solved
Halfway through I know I may never
know