Triumph Bonneville (EM Version) Lyrics

At twelve years old you're laying in your bedroom

Staring up at the ceiling stars again

Dreaming of a crowd spread out before you

They chant your name yelling play it again

Now you're sixteen and walking through a party

You're watching as your friends all grow

And deep down you know you won't know them forever

After all that's just how these things go

Then one day you wake up on the sofa

With a migraine pounding morse code through your head

The party's been over quite a while a now

The dreams replaced with memories instead

And you thought at worst you might be like the old rocker

From that Tull song once whispered in your ear

But most Triumph Bonnevilles, are getting even rarer still

And while your heroes all are gone you're still here

Used to be easy, the future seemed clearer

Out in the distance at the end of a drive

Now it's all darker, and just a bit colder

Yeah it's hard to dream when you're trying to survive

And sure, life might be easier when you're older

When you've learned somehow to live with the Fear

But the world is getting grayer by the hour

And the days are getting longer every year

I've never seen colors well or clearly

Some nerve somewhere up here must be lost

But the funny thing with color is in perception:

You don't know what you missed 'til you know it's lost

Sometimes the only living option

Despite how the world's changing me

Is to pass the fire to someone younger, and maybe a bit stronger

Than you and I could ever to hope to be

So take if you will our borrowed history

Leave it all out there on the floor

Rage against the dying of the light that wavers in you

And remember all the dreams worth fighting for.

At twelve years old you're laying in your bedroom

Staring up at the ceiling stars again

Dreaming of a crowd spread out before you

They chant your name yelling play it again