Grief Disguised as Joy

Close your eyes
Before you sleep
It helps to keep
Dreams alive
A diamond sky
Beyond your reach
Some distant beach
Like paradise
How come the chosen few don’t choose you
As they weave that mortal coil?
How come the ones who laugh, leave you 'til last
Then give you grief disguised as joy?
Tomorrow so close
So give up your ghosts
Untouched by love
And getting late
Oh Catherine wheel
How does it feel
To twist and fly
As others die?
How come the chosen few don’t choose you
As they weave that mortal coil?
How come the ones who laugh, leave you 'til last
Then give you grief disguised as joy?
You play with fire
I’ve been there too
And the first hundred years are the toughest
So it gets better?
A little better?
A bitter better
But don’t expect to want everything you get