Where I lived there used to be a drunken old dude He sat in town playing the guitar for all the pretty girls Till one day, I saw his name in the obituary, he had gone The same way as all others gone before Ambition fades, surpassed by the hands of time and we all Go the same way in the end There was a girl, she had so much promise, but most of all The dream she had inspired others to follow their own But I heard just the other day, she had flown too close to the sun She was gone The same way as all others gone before Ambition fades, surpassed by the hands of time and we all Go the same way in the end Rise from your graves You are not gone I heard them shout We're not done You know that you could always be struck down And you must know that we are destined to go The same way as all others gone before Ambition fades, surpassed by the hands of time and we all Go the same way in the end Go the same way in the end