Prelude

Candlelight flickers across these hands that write I sit and ponder the past and life Just wishing and wanting an answer tonight And so I am thinking and wondering asking why Do things go wrong when they have been right Where we used to frolic and laugh, we cry Life's past its prime, I wish I could stop the hands of time The end is nigh, a tick and a tock and the sands of time Slip from the clock as they pass us by As I'm sitting and watching the passers by Stranded high, imprisoned and locked in the land of my mind The living monotony hanging by To limit and smother a man this shy And to describe it's impossible though I can but try And now as I lie, a shiver runs ominous down my spine As a vision, a prophecy clouds my sight I predict an apocalypse happens tonight Clandestine, Our figurative god has cast the die Has triggered the goal of his grand design And the bigger the bomb is the faster we die Abandon fright, and give up the worry and anger and spite The difference is none if you stand and fight So sisters and brothers hold hands, unite While Dan says hi, and sings you a song as his last goodbye Bye bye bye