Never the Same Lyrics

The lines on my face are reminders

Of the trials and troubles I've known

The joy and the pain, it's an endless refrain

And it echoes the life I have chosen

The smile and the frown lines together

With the silver that grows every day

Mark out the path I've been walking

Without any words they can say

Don't you smile, sit in your armchair and wonder

What could come of your life if you only had given it time

We all have a part we can play

Someday we'll look back and say

It goes on forever, we're always and never the same

She's given up on the bikini

Says that half-shirts were only a phase

Some scarves in a drawer, all tattered and torn

Could bring back her bellydance days

But she doesn't like showing her body

Now that children and stretch marks arrived

Till one day she looks in the mirror

And decides that this is her time

Don't you smile, sit in your armchair and wonder

What could come of your life if you only had given it time

We all have a part we can play

Someday we'll look back and say

It goes on forever, we're always and never the same

He pulls down the brim of his ballcap

And spits on the ground at his feet

His wondering eyes stare at the horizon

The places he wanted to see

There's no guarantee of tomorrow

So he sets aside all of his plans

He stores and he sells 'till he stands by himself

It's time to start over again

Don't you smile, sit in your armchair and wonder

What could come of your life if you only had given it time

We all have a part we can play

Someday we'll look back and say

In spring and in summer, in winter and fall

Year after year it's the same for us all

It goes on forever, we're always and never the same

It goes on forever, we're always and never the same