Just for a second

Wake up and someone else is gone

Just another reminder

That I've got more days behind me than I do in front

And I don't have much to show for it

Don't want to look back and wonder what it was all for

Don't want to look back wishing I'd done more

Don't want to look back thinking about unsettled scores

Just want to feel at peace

Go to bed and someone else gone

Just another reminder

My day is nearly done

And I've lost the strength to run

Used to laugh at what made the old man cry

Now I know he was thinking about his time to die

It's the little things that cut our hearts open

And leave us totally broken

Can't remember what happened yesterday

It seems so long ago

But I can tell you every detail of a day long since past

That I'd give anything to have back again 

Just for a second