Before I Say

The fog is like a hazy memory of these streets that seems to never die
When as a child I could still believe that city lights could look like starry skies
Could you imagine things could ever be like the way they ended up today
The rise and crumble of the galaxies, the fading faces that you thought would stay

And in this short quarter that I've called my life
I've already felt the sting of a hundred years of knives

Time will pass, day by day, but you still don't feel so far away
In my head, you will stay, so I can tell you before I say

As I move I feel a weighted wing, flying dampened with a sense of doubt
There was a time I thought I could be king, but rosy glasses have been blackened out
And ever since she cane and left this place, it's lost a plenty of its mystic sheen
But maybe in the eye of this beholder's face, perhaps it was always meant to lose its gleam

And in this short quarter, I don't have much to show
Can innocence linger
I guess I'll never know

Time will pass, day by day, but you still don't feel so far away
In my head, you will stay, so I can tell you before I say

And all those friends that turned to enemies
I got to make them into melodies, to maybe set things right
But I can't run away
It's here I must stay, in this life I've made
You've changed this fate

And the silence has begun, far beneath the faded sun
How could it be, that you turned away
I really got to know before I say

I've got to say that I loved you
I can't believe I don't see you
Would you believe that I miss you
I gotta say it
I just had to tell you, after all that we've left behind
One last time, before I say

Goodbye