Drove by an old school
Such an ordinary day
I didn't feel anything
Except bad memories
Best years of my life
That's what they say
They've gotten older
Now in rapid decline
Yet I've barely peaked
Ain't life sweet?

Sometimes I wish
I would have listened
Instead of rebelling
Cause lately its been hand to mouth
Saving for a rainy day
Endlessly discussed
But I've got nothing to show
Except peace of mind
That's collecting interest daily
Yeah, we'll be okay.

As the old haunt passes from view
I reflect on the past 20 years
Hard to fathom that a skinny boy
With a bottomless thirst for everything illicit and legal
Would have survived
Have a future
Whatever his will is
Laws of the universe guess
I'm a sucker for all the details
Yet it doesn't matter
What the grand scheme is
Or who covets the master plan
It's 2 easy 2
Get wrapped up in seriousness
Forgetting how to be free just
Like the children frolicking through the fields.

Call me naive
Or a foolish dreamer
But when defenses are down
And the conditioning is proved unsound
We wait the sunrise earnestly
And regret the sunset sadly
Serenity nestled in beds
2 dream again
Without a worry about deadlines
Bills, mortgage payments or
Who's gonna screw us royally
As we fall prey 2
What is expected
And in these brief moments
Of priceless frivolity
Like those children frolicking
We are at one until
Reality rears its nastiness again...

P-June 29, 2007/Bowling Green, Ohio