Twenty Good Years ((Jesse's Version)) Lyrics

It's the last night in Greensboro,

I'm looking out over the lake

Like a pool of mercury

Dropped into a landscape

Of emerald fields and faded barns

And rolling wooded hills

White mountains in the distance

And a thought that gives me chills

More than half my life is over,

I've got maybe twenty good years left,

And that's if I am lucky,

It could easily be less

Can I face it like Ulysses?

Fix my eye on the horizon,

Stare into the sinking sun

Though much is taken, much abides,

Some work of noble note may yet be done.

Somehow I never noticed

I never felt my age before

Thirty-five or forty-five,

I wasn't keeping score

I tasted victory and defeat,

But never had a doubt

That it would all go on and on

Now I feel it running out

What is the meaning of life?

To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield

What is the meaning of life?

In the kingdom of the dead,

All will be revealed

More than half my life is over

I've got maybe twenty good years left,

And that's if I am lucky

It could easily be less

Can I face it like Ulysses?

Fix my eye on the horizon,

Stare into the sinking sun

Some work of noble note may yet be done