The Day I Came of Age

How many rays of sunshine
Have danced through the state of Maine?
How many days of summer did I spend
Running through the rain
Chasing after children with a furrowed brow
And the sourest of moods?
And the tear stains on their faces
Traced the lines that mark my own
I tried so hard to tell them all
The things I've come to know
But when you're just as lost and restless
Then what the hell's a boy supposed to do?

That was the day I came of age
Eyes wide with shock, fists clenched with rage
Forced out of my false Eden
Without having heard a word of sage advice
Why must these dreams we forge at night dissolve in the daylight?
These dreams we forge at night dissolve in the daylight

A doe-eyed beauty walked across the room, all I could do was stare
She ruled it with an iron fist, lit it with her golden hair
And she left me all but speechless
Robbed me of the words to make a sentence
And when they pulled me outside, oh how they were mistaken
From words misunderstood and from actions not yet taken
They had deemed me lost and reckless
And a plane ticket home was my repentance

Well, that was the day I came of age
Eyes wide with shock, fists clenched with rage
Forced out of that false Eden
Without having heard a word of sage advice
Oh why must these dreams we forge at night dissolve in the daylight?
These dreams we forge at night dissolve in the daylight



Credits
Writer(s): Jacob Reynolds Cassman
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