Adulthood

I go outside

Ask the air if it would like to hide

Take a deep breath

Walk inside my prize

In my lungs I still feel young

But my body won’t play along

I’m thinking this must not be where we belong

And the world

Split in two from the throng

Of every living soul

Screaming at the top of their lungs

Singing this is my word

But somehow we never get heard

There’s just an echo

From a lost and lonely world

And I dare you to survive

Being grown for the rest of your life

From adulthood no one survives.

Ten billion feet

Pounding at the ground each week

Every secret, every burden they keep

Each one’s waiting on the chance

To be lifted off the ground but then

To discover that we’ll all be dust again

And I dare you to survive

Being grown for the rest of your life

From adulthood no one survives.

…And I dare you to survive

Being grown for the rest of your life

From adulthood no one survives.

From adulthood no one survives.

by Jukebox the Ghost