Rough Draft

Why do we loan ourselves to the things by which

We will never be repaid

And feel consoled by tomorrow

When today has been profaned

Confused by choices or blind to cause-and-effect

And a future gravestone

Today's a draft of your epitaph

Keep changing it 'til you meet the grave

Update your draft of your epitaph

Till you crash and break like a wave

I'll hope to file away my account today

And see it in some value

And appreciate all that I've had

Before I quit this venue

Confused by choices but alive to cause-and-effect

An eventual gravestone

Today's a draft of your epitaph

Keep changing it 'til you meet the grave

Update your draft of your epitaph

Till you crash and break like a wave

Something about someone with a hood and a scythe

Something about a date you just can't cancel

Eulogies, memories, services and tombstones

Flowers and candles, tears and regrets

If I ask myself every day, is today the day?

Then one day, it will be my final draft

Lost in today

Confused by choices or blind to cause-and-effect

And a future gravestone, an eventual gravestone

Today's a draft of your epitaph

Keep changing it 'til you meet the grave

Update your draft of your epitaph

Till you crash and break like a wave

Today's a draft of your epitaph

Keep changing it 'til you meet the grave

Update your draft of your epitaph

Till you crash and break like a wave

Today's a draft of your epitaph

Keep changing it 'til you meet the grave

Update your draft of your epitaph

Till you crash and break like a wave

Break like a wave