So I find myself back right where I began
Fallen behind all the others who ran
Surrounded by places that are too familiar
Ash-covered roads lined with broken mirrors

You can do anything that you dream
At least that’s how they make it seem
But I’m caught in Hell right when it gets hotter
Stuck here in this forsaken backwater

Oh, what a wonderful world
It’s just too bad I can’t see it
Yes, ’tis a beautiful life
You can’t make a fool believe it

Oh, such bright skies
Endless, infinite in scope
Yes, blue and wide
Gives us all false hope

Angels fly among us all or so they say
I hope to meet one someday
Why they aren’t here isn’t hard to tell
Angels just don’t belong in Hell

Now and then I’ll spy one flying low
Yet out of the range of Cupid’s bow
I reach too far then stumble and fall
And I tell myself through it all

Oh, what a wonderful world
It’s just too bad I can’t see it
Yes, ’tis a beautiful life
You can’t make a fool believe it

Oh, such bright skies
Endless, infinite in scope
Yes, blue and wide
Gives us all false hope

The ones who fled are too wise to return
I’d love nothing more but to join them on the run
Tough are these trials that I endure
My troubles don’t set with the sun
Friends have grown apart, grown older
Changed and discovered new desires
If only I had been a little bolder
I’d be flying ahead of the fire

Oh, what a wonderful world
It’s just too bad I can’t see it
Yes, ’tis a beautiful life
You can’t make a fool believe it

Oh, such bright skies
Endless, infinite in scope
Yes, blue and wide
Gives us all false hope

And on the chance that the hope was true
I’ll find my way back to you
If only for a moment we’ll relive the past
But we all know life slips away too fast….

-Tyler Woodbridge

4/10/08