For All of This

I’m a very sentimental man

Watching life and love slipping through my hands

Always wondering at the failure of all my plans

For what it’s worth I’m a very sentimental man,

Love, like a single grain of shifting sands

Unlike her hair made of silken strands

I feel as if lost in some forgotten lands

In an airplane completely unmanned,

Tell me where this fool went wrong

Once so self-assured and strong

It’s those better days for which I long

Like the echo of some old favorite song,

Sometimes when the fog lifts

My melancholy mood then shifts

When life doesn’t seem to be a hieroglyph

It’s just my dreams hanging off a cliff,

Come on now! Get a grip!

You’re not aboard a sinking ship

A chapter of your life you can skip

But, into the quick sand I slip,

Like that puppy who just died

There’s a harsh world outside

Your love was denied

Why were those promises lies?

I’m a very sentimental man

Watching life and love slipping through my hands

Always wondering at the failure of all my plans

For what it’s worth I’m a very sentimental man,

They say, “By the grace of God I walk.”

And I laugh and I eat and I talk

Everyone needs a parent as solid as a rock

Yet, the killers will still stalk,

The fools will always annoy

While the heroes selflessly deploy

The cowards will never enjoy

How a real man grows from a boy,

Was I too sentimental for all of this?

Life lived as though a near miss

You step on a snake and you’ll hear a hiss

Giving it all away for one warm kiss.