The Forgotten Lyrics

Once there was a child in the world of the forgotten

Who'd sit and watch the stage from a stranger's eyes

The lights so captivating, you could lose yourself inside

And the mind of an eager dreamer open wide

Life will pass on by and some dreams may go forgotten

Left collecting dust in a stranger time

Surrounded by the blur of trudging through the hazy darkness

The morning light will bleed into the day

And lately on my mind I find the world I had forgotten

An echo of a dream that used to be

And when I do I find I'm not the same as when I wrought them

The crashing tides of time have got to me

But in this moment I believe

That I could find my way back to such perfect clarity

It seems that I have left something behind

Lost within a maze inside my mind

A piece of the puzzle is missing inside my mind

And now I can't find

Where I drew the line

Where I lost my drive

I've been stuck here treading water trying to survive

And it occurs to me that I'm not where I envisioned

When I used to hold an image

Of the future as a vision of idyllic life

Well here I am

And I paid the price in pennies of sacrifice

A little more apathy will get me through the day

And I convince myself that it's still okay

It's still coming, it's still coming

It's not gone yet, it's still coming

I can't remember the last time I was honest with myself

There's something missing

There's something gone

It left a hole, and now I see

There's something it gave to me, something I lost

Something I failed to see, despite the cost

It's been eating away at me, been wearing me down

Been tearing away at all the certainty I'd found

And in this moment I believe

That I could find my way back to such perfect clarity

It seems that I have left something behind

Lost within a maze inside my mind

Once I held a secret, I held it in my hands

And I could see the future then, before I could understand

Now I know the mystery, but I can't see the truth

And I can't see the picture that I held so fast in youth

And it's gone, and it's gone

When the darkness pulls the strings that keep the light away

And it's gone, and it's gone

Yet I still can feel it flicker out of sight

But in this moment I believe

That I could find my way back to such perfect clarity

It seems that I have left something behind

Lost within a maze inside my mind

And in this moment I can see

The path was always somewhere just beyond my memory

It seems that I have let myself be blind

Trapped within a maze inside my mind

Once I was a child in the world of the forgotten

And as I lived my life I lost myself along the way

Before I am consumed by all the fear that now surrounds me

I'll catch the dying light as it fades away

And lately on my mind I find the world I had forgotten

I can't let it slip away from me

And now I have to find a way to bring back what I lost then

'Cause I won't let it slip away from me