How do you spend a lifetime?
Do you carry it in your purse?
Is it moving by so quickly
That you want to put it in reverse?
Are you sailing through your twenties
And sliding past with style?
Or are you living for the moment
For what seems the most worth while?
Have you conquered your thirties
While working very hard?
Or are you chasing impossible rainbows
With lifes' complete disregard?
Now you're in your fourties
Where did the past years go?
You're wondering what is happening
Why gray hairs begin to grow?
And when you reach your fifties
Have you learned to do what's right?
Or are you ceasing every moment
To cuss and fuss and fight?
I would rather spend my lifetime
Being who I am right now
And being kind to others
And wish they'd do the same somehow
But dreaming is part of living
And while I dream big dreams
There are those who would rather hurt me
And tear things apart it seems
To those who sailed past twenty
And took thirty by a storm
At fourty were you wishing
That at fifty to do such harm?
I'll never understand you
And your behind the scenes unkind
Will you ever really really know
Or are you really all that blind?
To live a life of malice
Is not the life for me
But apparently you like it
For it's what you seem to be
I hope some day you grow up
But like love, hate is also blind
I'll take my life troubles and all and more
Because I know how to spend a lifetime!
Written by
Heart
10/13/07
...and dedicated to every hateful
person that I ever met, especially three
in particular at Air Supply concerts!
