• I splash my face with crystal water,
    lookin' deep in my reflection
    A pair of bloodshot foggy eyes
    staring back in my direction...

    Seein' what you're all afraid of seein',
    These aging lines on my face a suicidal beacon.
    People been tellin' me I look old for my age,
    but they've never read my book, not a single page...

    And this beacon, it's callin' ships in from sea
    but on a rainy, misty, opalescent night
    my shattered reality, my broken still mind can't believe
    this call's going unanswered, this light hidden from sight...

    And this world's just so damn cruel;
    ya know they say knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss,
    but I know for damn sure that I'm not slow, and sure as hell ain't a fool,
    and it looks like my humanity is showing... less, and less...

    I sometimes wanna put my brain on the shelf,
    out of reach, out of sight, out of mind...
    Grab a loaded Glock and blast myself,
    them's no second chances, no way to rewind.

    But I know my real motive's
    so that people would remember me.
    But after readin' all them books about all the Centuries,
    I found out the hard way that the world has got no memory.

    I'd be just another statistic; a single footnote,
    not even worth mentioning, stuck into print
    only as an afterthought; my case unpled,
    reality skewed, not even a hint

    of this truth, that I'm not just some twisted little kid,
    I'm cast into a cold world where I just don't fit.
    Ten sizes too big to fit these new shoes,
    I'm restorin' to conformin', and I've got nothing left to lose.

    Except.

    Except I have a place where I belong;
    where I don't have to fit in, to stick with the throng,
    the ever-changing current from here to Key West,
    where I plot my own course and I take my own tests.

    I've got a father, and a brother,
    a little sister and a mother,
    A dozen friendly faces, lighting up the harbor shore;
    And when I see their smiling,
    My sails, they start retiring,
    and them nasty, evil thoughts reside inside my head no more.