This is what growing up does to you

I'm a race against time
SO much moving, going on inside
This is where I go to hide
There are dreams inside, these dreams are alive
I can't slow down I can only speed up
Where this will take me I hope it won't stop

The dreams I have may be hard to grasp
Dreams are my world, without them I'd be nowhere
I'd be a candle in the wind, never staying fully lit
Not in life, not in anything
I'd be a grain of sand lost in someone's shoe

Not today, not tomorrow am I stopping
I can't keep thinking I got to start doing
I can't be robotic gotta be effortless and fabulous
Can't dance to someone else's drum
Never have I ever heard this so clear
All I can do is disappear in my dreams

Maybe all this mindful swimming will catch me in a wave of reality
One two three
I want to see, I want it to be here I want to be free
But there are diameters which I cannot cross
Parallels I can't match up
So this is life

Life life life
do do do
make make make
be be be
you you you
but but but
before you can be free
you have to pay pay pay
then you'll be free free free

until the next cha chinggg awakens those in slumber
you'll be back, i'll be back
you'll see, because nothing in this life is really truly free