Grey Garden

Lyrics

Change of a Lifetime

I took a trip last night,
to a world in another time-
I watched you're eyes so bright,
like stars in the morning light-
Relived the plans we made,
immersed in dreams and shade-
but something's off, I knew,
'twas a memory of you...

I feel I'm changing shape,
"Are you still there?"
So many years ago...
So many years, you know-
I woke and the world had changed-
Desperate, leaving strange-
The still in your eyes-
In love, I'm alive!
I thought you had died...
I see our memories,
I see our younger days,
I see you cold and dead,
I see fear and lonely ways...

A lifetime of pictures,
deserted in film...
Absorbed in the darkness,
of fading will-
Relive the memory,
from now, never the same-
Iconic and placid,
in a world gone astray...

From the days of our youth,
I knew it would come...
The day that you'd drop,
as your ghost leaves the room...

The change of a lifetime-
So distant and strange...
The change of a lifetime-
so odd and deranged...

I saw you die last night...
I watched you drown-
A morbid image,
that tears me down...
The change of a lifetime-
The children remain...
The change of a lifetime-
Now nothing's the same...

From the moment I wake,
the nightmare begins-
Counting the hours,
as the day grows dim-
...a few minutes closer,
to the grave you'll be in...
and the change of a lifetime,
and reflecting what's been-
-The tragic, old sin

I watched you die last night-
I watched you drown in sight...
...Under stars in the evening light