Permanent

I can't settle down
 With the cracking sound
 Of broken bonds still ringing in my head
 Laughter stops stomach knots
 No one wins the mountain top
 The steel gets tired of the rust and folds
 Never in control
 History does not disappear or get old
 Let me get this straight it's all around and written off
 As a life expense
 Nothing can come in between, I will not pretend
 Where I am and where I've been, I will not pretend
 That everything is permanent
 1923, 25, 29 and feeling fine
 Trying not to shake the kid
 Holding on underneath for dear life
 The quiet whispers close to my ears are getting hard to hear
 Drown out by the sound
 And lights of nice quiet normal successful life
 Let me get this straight it's all around and written off
 As a life expense
 Nothing can come in between, I will not pretend
 What I love and who I am, I will not pretend
 That everything is permanent
 I couldn't finish what I started
 It scared the shit out of me
 I couldn't finish what I started
 Observing history
 I couldn't finish what I started