The third of three songs thinking about my past. A jumble of faded memories that, in my mind's eye, seems like a Monochrome Kaleidoscope!
Story behind the song
The third of three songs thinking about my past. A jumble of faded memories that, in my mind's eye, seems like a Monochrome Kaleidoscope!
This song, more than the other two about the past, focuses mainly on past relationships and fantasies about how things could have been different.
Lyrics
Well if life goes according to plan
I’d be walking on the beach with my one true love
But there’s just too much we don’t understand
Maybe we’re not supposed to know that much
I found out the hard way
A fantasy is as only as good
Until the next day
I guess I always knew it would
If I want to love again
I want to start again
I’ll climb the mountain ahead
Or turn around and go back home
If I want another friend
In someone I can depend
A soulmate until the end
Is it worth the time?
I don’t know
Well I guess I’m okay with what I’ve got
My life seems no better or worse
Until I start thinking, well maybe it’s not
I probably should have thought of that first
So I sit here all alone
Pumped up on all of these
Artificial – superficial
Highs and smiles – just say cheese – click!
Another frame exposed
Another moment disposed
Another chance is blown
Quickly passed my eyes
Hang on to that rope
Life is a dangerous slope
Too slippery to cope
It’d be easier just to fly
Sick of this false hope
This monochrome kaleidoscope
An expense at my joke
I’ve got a bridge for you to buy
So here’s that bridge that I promised you
All sales are final I hope you knew
So here’s that bridge cross it at your own risk
Is this any way to live?
Dying to taste your kiss
Solo
I close my eyes for just a while
To see the future that might be
I close my eyes some times
To see the past that got away from me
I close my eyes just to sigh
To see a life that’s a just a fantasy
And maybe if I try
One day I’ll open my eyes
To find you next to me
I’ll open my eyes, get a surprise
To find you lying next to me.
I’ll open my eyes to my surprise
And find you lying next to me
Just one wish, a taste of your kiss
To find you lying next to me.
I’ll open my eyes to my surprise
And find you lying next to me