There will come a day, my friend, when none of this matters The darkness, the struggles, the pleasures and the smiles All will be washed away Like tears falling into the ocean of time Our self-image, our possessions, our pride and our pain There will come a day when nothing of you will remain You might find it soothing, or you might find it sad The idea of losing everything that you once had ♪ Oh, my friend, I have lost it all And I have lost myself It was the darkest night that I have ever felt But it is in darkness where you will find the light It is through suffering you will get it right The pulverisation of yourself The death of your mind gives birth to your heart It's all necessary for a new start ♪ I sometimes lay down and gaze up towards a clear night sky It helps me regain perspective What I want to happen What I don't want to happen How self-absorbed I have been to consider it important The future, the past The endless amount of time spent on worry or regret What a waste of the gift that is life Whenever you watch the stars Can you feel yourself overflow with wonder? The mysteries of life are all around you, my friend But your mind is like a cage You will not experience what it can not grasp The smaller the room, the smaller the experience you must grow it ♪ I'm writing you this letter, for life is uncertain And as you will come to understand - everything is temporary Everything ends and everything evolves It is all constantly changing Every cell of your body is changing All the time So let your mind change too If you're not happy with who you are Then you are not who you really are These are the things I want you to think of Whenever I cross your mind Know that you are a soul living the human experience Trust your intuition and only your intuition With practice, it becomes a compass to guide you through life ♪ If you feel anxious, it means that you're doing something wrong Silence your mind and feel Observe your thoughts and change what you can You know I had to change a lot Everything in my life was wrong, and man Did I suffer for it? Eventually I experienced that it is not The incidents or our emotions That creates our suffering It's our reactions towards them that does ♪ Keep that in your mind, my friend, as I tell you A cycle is reaching its end All shall pass Happiness and suffering Time is relentless towards all Yet, we are eternal, beyond the world that we know One day we will both return to the earth what we have from her taken When our bones finally rest below the forest soil And our souls again wander in the midnight sky My dear friend I hope my words can become a shoulder for you to cry on And when it's time We will meet again Beyond the belt of Orion