Making Castles

I'll carry on through the dust and the muck And the storm if it's easy You go and pay off your debts and your bills Just as long as you're happy I'll be chasing rabbits again And I don't know why Nothing is the matter my friend So long as I cry And I open my eyes when I wake up I'm all alone in the sand making castles Even though I'm a grown man I've got a button in my pocket that I found And a scrape on my hand I'm standing in a thunderstorm Wishing I could fly If the wind will take me away I won't try to hide from or fight it Even if I die Naked I stare at myself in the mirror Just to see my reflection Tattered and torn All the scars that I've worn Every wrinkle on my skin Takes me back in time again And shows exactly how Nothing can be changed from back then Nor the future All that I know's I am alive right now Too many will die Without facing the clouds That are gracing the sky It is easy to smile at a passerby There's so much to be seen In a rock or a bug or the bark of a tree And it pains me To watch them walk by it Without even trying to see I'm all alone in the sand making castles Even though I'm a grown man I've got a button in my pocket that I found And a scrape on my hand But too many will die Without facing the clouds That are gracing the sky It is easy to smile little passerby There's so much to be seen In a rock or a bug or the bark of a tree And it pains me To watch them walk by it Without even trying to see