How long until I learn to live? It takes a whole life It lasts As long as it lasts I walk toward what I thought was the edge Waiting for the day Everything might shift And change it does With each tick of time Desires crash through my mind Like armies storming quiet lands Supernovas burst Stardust undone But when what I want arrives It's no longer what I need For I’ve already become someone else How long until I learn to live? It takes a whole life Lessons come with every rise Monday or Friday Every day teaches in disguise Do I close my eyes, or face it? Do I open my arms to pain? While I run from sorrow Love runs from me again How long until I learn to live? It takes a whole life Lessons come with every rise Monday or Friday Every day teaches in disguise A new sun burns In a fallen sky Fragments of my heart Reform in cosmic lullabies Nebulas and stars Planets breathe with light and death New constellations Sketch what’s left Weak or strong? Who commands this mortal fate? Chasing butterflies of delusion Entangled in the net of age How long until I learn to live? It takes a whole life Lessons come with every rise Monday or Friday Every day teaches in disguise Where do I get off? What’s the final station? Where hides my ever-after salvation? In the end It’s just my heart Filtering the universe’s light Seeing what it wants to see Spinning verses endlessly Fighting windmills made of dreams