Now i'm all for speaking, even if I seem unsure
Exactly who I'm speaking for,
I guess you threw me in the deep end,
It all depend on which of you is dreaming more
How many sleeping? I aint keeping score
My last fan count amounted to around three or four
Call me small time, sorta like a pocket watch,
It aint I, that the eyes in your socket watch,
Still I got it locked, like pandora's box
Play me on the rooftops, play me in the poorest blocks,
Try to call the shots, all I jots unorthodox,
No rest for the gifted, pulling out all the stops,
Am I different, course I'm not
Only joking, being different now is all we got,
I'm still the same when the chorus stops,
I just record, pour my thoughts out, like water drops


(chorus)

A man dies, and a child is born,
I'm half wise, half torn by my childish scorn,
Nights fall, sons rise, fathers depart
Mothers raise kids, kids sing with the heart,
The world turns, time never rewinds
I'm wound up, found nothing by looking behind
The world burns, now until my rain comes
Fly far, but know where you came from

This is not a motion picture,
It's most similar to an emotion picture,
So prestigious, heaven in a quick glimpse,
I aint so religious, building ocean bridges,
Crossing over seas, I leave like blossom on the trees,
On the breeze,
Summers falling into love,
Autumn brawling, now you wave bye with winter gloves,
Seasons change, lets some freeze some frames
People turned cold by degrees again,
Looking icily at me, like he's to blame,
Cut me and I do bleed, but it would be in vain
I tell it like photographs of phonographs,
In black and white, the flashing lights blowing past
Every moment past, I hold it fast,
Memories stay sharp as the broken glass


(chorus)

A man dies, and a child is born,
I'm half wise, half torn by my childish scorn,
Nights fall, sons rise, fathers depart
Mothers raise kids, kids sing with the heart,
The world turns, time never rewinds
I'm wound up, found nothing by looking behind
The world burns, now until my rain comes
Fly far, but know where you came from


Truth hiding in kaleidoscopes,
Show the public eye, my private hopes,
I talk rich, but i'm twice as broke,
Though my life is made whole, and now I can cope
With regrets, lining on my doorstep
I brush em off, like the floors swept,
You all stepped forwards when I called you,
And spoke with the passion, I Imagine has you all moved
I thought I knew the world, only eighteen,
Funny how long ago the days seem,
Funny how I still hold the same dreams,
And still don't know what they mean,
I think I know the world, nearly twenty two,
Don't walk a mile in mine, I need some better shoes,
But my soul shines like gems and jewels,
Though I never looked cool to my friends at school


(chorus)

A man dies, and a child is born,
I'm half wise, half torn by my childish scorn,
Nights fall, sons rise, fathers depart
Mothers raise kids, kids sing with the heart,
The world turns, time never rewinds
I'm wound up, found nothing by looking behind
The world burns, now until my rain comes
Fly far, but know where you came from

(x2)