Childhoods End

Feel like I'm jumpin' thru a time machine

WE grew up thinking life was so damn open
So full of hope, so boldly woken
So foolish, we the newly rosen
Feeling like we own what we've barely chosen
We didn't know then what was once spoken
'Nothing that stays can be so golden'
O we bemoan those moments frozen
So much for savings and education!
Well what did we expect of a shiny river?
We couldn't have remained 17 forever!
Still contending our older-betters
And still ascending|descending that social ladder
Up thru the glitter in the dreams we had
In all the summer evenings on the sand
A lot fitter, a bit less bitter
Panning-peter with a meat-eater!

But we never can rebecome the kids we once were
Beating out our blues on mommy's shoulder
Getting older means no longer
Dancing to the tune of some new-younger
Cuz that childhood has come and gone
So time to make peace, time to move on
All seasons end, all speed on
All that has been is now once-upon

And can YOU imagine - ur life at 40?
Still rushing off to that fancy party?
Still getting dressed up every nighty
And still ticklin' all that stinkerbellery?
Poppin' the pill u've popped plenty -
One makes ya mean, another mighty -
May tonighty like a thousand nighties
Would please with a tease in ur tighty whiteys!
So there u go again tappin' 'likey' buttons
On every honey's heiny that might seem open
Only hopin' to get to pokin'
A manifolden man-child hedon
Well u'll see how much depravity
Can keep a man chained to his prostitivity
Of the longevity of his productivity
Livin' out|Sippin' on his 5th, even 6th infancy|zinfandel

So it's time to say goodbye to what we've come to likey
Time to recognize puerile frivilities
Time to crystallize our realities
Where all the pleasantries have been but parodies
For that melody has come and gone
So time to make peace, time to move on
All seasons end, all speed on
All that has been is now once-upon

'So has it come to this, the worst of MY fears?
Did I waste away all these stinking years?
Plyin' away my wares at idle faires
Now all the mirrors bear my wears and tears
Numb, succumb to my humility
Silent the tunes of my virility
Far from the physical that once framed me
And far from life's real responsibilities
Look at me now, sittin' alone in darkness
Clutching a photo album in the hospice
Soon to fill another coffin
Ceaselessly counting down to my oblivion
I should've known this whole stupid life thing
Didn't come with a presupposèd happy ending
Never can get to try again again
All childhoods all lifetimes end!

And our childhoods have come and gone
So time to make peace, time to move on
All seasons end, all speed on
All that has been is now once-upon
All that has gone is now once-upon
All that has gone is now once-upon
So once for all my once-upons I cast to driftwood
May ye drift in PEACE, o sweet childhood!

Nay, what guides me have I yet
Safely tucked it keeps the time
Until that day they call the debt
When blithely will I pay what's mine

Pero cuando me imagino
Dejándola en un lugar
Siento dejando media vida que me mando
Se me va desvanecer

别怕，儿子
大胆的往前走吧
一步一步来

I'm outta here, outta here!