Story Behind The Song
Losing friends to death makes one take pause and think about the past ... because one reaches a certain age and there's less time in the future than in the past.
Song Description
The loss of relationships and the consideration of time.
Losing friends to death makes one take pause and think about the past ... because one reaches a certain age and there's less time in the future than in the past.
| Song Length |
3:39 |
Genre |
Rock - General, Rock - Alternative |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant |
Subject |
Age, Aging, General |
| Similar Artists |
The Wallflowers, Bodeans |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
COUNTING BACKWARDS
VERSE 1
I think about you, when I close my eyes
In a shroud of darkenss as the daylight dies
Try to conjure your face from what I recall
Gone as smoke in the wind, I have no crystal ball
CHORUS
Now you're gone, what will keep me young?
Since you're gone, time is on the run
Wherever you went, I wished that I could come
Counting backwards to when we were young
VERSE 2
Words of the Bard were wrong about the heart
It's a bitter sorrow, when we had to part
Only fools regret, because what's done is done
If there's one truth, youth is wasted on the young
CHORUS
VERSE 3
Look out ahead, careful don't look back
The past is the past, a fact is just a fact
Cut no quarter, can't turn on a dime
The one lost thing you can't get back is time
CHORUS
SOLO (OVER CHORUS CHORDS)
CHORUS
Repeat last line three times. On the third time slow down.