Waltz of Roses

Come now let's hide in our childhood for a while I've got nothing good to do, neither do you It's the best shelter I could find Let's wait for this to blow over, or to blow up We wouldn't even mind Cause you and me and everyone we know Was once a child and now they have to grow old And when they do they find they're full of regret And I refuse to live my life like that My life is going nowhere that's for sure, Just trying to find something worth living for Cause all of my friends look like little adults Dancing the waltz of the tick-tock of time But my clock stopped years ago So I wouldn't know the dance even if I tried. Cause you and me and everyone we know Was once a child and now they have to grow old And when they do they find they're full of regret And I refuse to live my life like that Look at all these adults Dancing the waltz of the tick-tock of time Luckily my clock stopped years ago So I wouldn't know the dance even if I tried

A break in the clouds is a break in my day Face the sun of my salvation As Hathaway Jones would have made it his own feet Fly by the wings of your creation On the top of your head, there is a poem The thought in my head, oh God only knows As everything else will disappoint you I used to be young and bold But now I'm afraid, I'm getting so old I followed the light to the City of Roses It's a little-known fact that I can't cope I'm the champion of repression I've had it enough with the east coast I'll die by the wings of my ambition The city I left, the city of throes The one that I loved, the city of hope As everything else will disappoint you I used to be young and bold But now I'm of age, I'm getting so old I followed the light to the City of Roses A break in the clouds is a break in my day