Shandy Lyrics

Let me start at the end

No, that's too bold, let's amend

The middle seems fine

But what's time if not bent

A life unwritten is a tale misspent

Oh, wait, did I mention my overall scheme

Or last night's weird dreams

Forgive the digress, but it must be said

We're all threads tangled in a web half-read

Start with the chaos, the muddle of birth

Tensions unravel, what a life is worth

Every step forward circles back round

Reality is lost, where digressions are found

Never a plot without cracks in its frame

Ending elude, what's a story but a name

The midwife knocks, but fate takes her time

Each breath I borrow spins prose into rhyme

Did you hear about Yorick, my father's wit

No? Ah, forget it, let's circle a bit

A clock that strikes, but doesn't chime right

A widow's sigh in the dead of night

The battles we fight with wooden swords

Shape the music we hum, the songs of our chords

Start with the chaos, the muddle of birth

Tensions unravel, what a life is worth

Every step forward circles back round

Reality is lost, where digressions are found

Never a plot without cracks in its frame

Ending elude, what's a story but a name

Let's pause the waltz, wait, did I tell you?

About the fly in the ointment, the joke that flew

It's all connected, but not at once

Life suggests a riddle, a dunce

So here we are, at the start or the end

Still chasing the threads we'll never mend

But isn't the beauty in the chaos we weave

A life half told is still ours to believe