The Time And The Season

There comes a time in life, you realise

You've taken it all on trust

And all those years of lies and compromise

Have turned your dreams into dust

So face to face with your mortality

You let the bullets fly

A chance to shoot down your reality

And start to question why

This is the time and the season

To seek out the systems of change

Don't waste your life getting even

Or picking at twisted remains

If you can take it or leave it

You've got to move out to move on

This is the time and the season

To know when the moment has gone

Do you know who you are?

You've come this far

As just a face in the crowd

And just forced to hide your light way out of sight

Afraid to speak out loud

If you just toe the line, you'll do just fine

Until they cut you down

You'd better hope and pray it's not too late

To turn your life around

When others cloud your vision

You've got to take control

Accept a higher mission

And live it heart and soul

Can't exist on former glories

Reputations fade so fast

Time to tell a different story

Make it good and make it last

Sad to say, the golden summers of yesterday

Seem a lifetime ago

Gone with friends we left

Forever at childhood's end

With secrets only we know

Now we face the cruellest winter

The darkest age

What chance survival?

No choice but to feed on scraps

From a gilded cage

Our bitter rivals have thrown

You and me, forced together or so it seems

We grew in separate ways

Some way back we lost the meaning

Of what we had

We left the pathway

Too late to paper over the deepest cracks

We reach into the unknown

There is one world

And it feeds no other earth

Heaven just a broken promise

A ghost of what we're worth

And in one world

We've the power to make it right

Cut the ties with sacred knowledge

And move into the light

No trust in politicians

Or gods to help us through

Instead a recognition - it's all in you

There is one world

Stands alone in time and space

Older than the distant stars

Outlives the human race

There is one world

And we can't go round again

Here for but the briefest candle

Allowed to mortal men

Don't wait to take your chances

Go out and seize the day

When inspiration dances

And takes your breath away

Can't exist on former glories

Reputations fade so fast

Time to tell a different story

Make it good and make it last

When others cloud your vision

You've got to take control

Accept a higher mission

Believe it, live it heart and soul

This is the time and the season

To seek out the systems of change

Don't waste your life getting even

Or picking at twisted remains

If you can take it or leave it

You've got to move out to move on

This is the time and the season

You don't need a reason

To take all the cards in your hand

Throw them all into the air

To see where they might land