A fleeting touch
A fleeting glance
A fleeting fear
A fleeting chance
The knowledge everything will pass
Even, eventually, the sun
So, measure time with dripping taps
And notice as it bends and snaps
Now stretching out
Now springing back
Already past us as it comes
A moment is only a moment
A year is just one trip 'round the sun
And somewhere, from some distant perspective
There's a way they can be seen as one
A fleeting change
A moments rest
A seconds time for second best
The here and now is all there is
Make a note to future self
To sum my life up in a word
An abstract noun, a gentle verb
An adjective, a soaring bird
I hope it will be "Loved"
A moment is only a moment
A year is just one trip 'round the sun
And somewhere, from some distant perspective
There's a way they can be seen as one
I see the shadow of a gallows
Some nights, on the back of my eyes
Everyone's posing for perfect strangers
But all I want's a simple, honest life
I want it bad
I hope that's alright?
The fleeting feeling you're alone
And no one understands your pain
Can spiral you down like a drain
But it's almost never true
Think of the ones who came before
The false belief
The bloody wars
The mad king's reign
The surgeons saw
And yet, still, here we are
A moment is only a moment
A year is just one trip around the sun
And somewhere, from some distant perspective
There's a way they can be seen as one
There's a way they can be seen as one
Both fleeting, and ever-long