monsters of time

there's green eyed monsters
and brown eyed monsters
and lovers who don't know your name

there's time to be changing

and times to be changed

and neither can be re-arranged

theres scribbled down wishes
and played out day dreams
and chased down ideas of self

theres lies to remember
and truths to engender
of portents to somebody else

so time runs you over
but time don't get bolder
it simply stays the same

and it washes across you
til you lose all consciousness
and fight to regain it again

but you can't fight the darkness
and you can't guard the light
you just watch them both do their thing

and you keep your hope distant
so it won't have an instant
to creep up and hurt you again

oh, there's green eyed monsters
and brown eyed monsters
and lovers who forget your name

and there's times to be changin'
and there's times to be changed
and these two can't be re-arranged