Four hundred thousend years ago They came from outer space And gave us life here We are taking everything for granted I don't think we should do this now And when I see the smoke all around I feel like I'm now From humankind down there I feel like

(Take me higher) Freed of the world Shed of the weight Onward to see you my friend Light years above Time seems to wait Promise to see you again It haunts to remember All the memories of that day

All my good years I'd rather be anywhere Anywhere but here I pray to God I didn't waste all my good years I close my eyes and see a crowd of a thousand tears The voices screaming loud as hell We don't care 'bout no one else Nothing in the world could

Memories of you Waking skies at sunrise Every sunset too Seems to be bringing me Here and there, everywhere Scenes that we once knew And they all just recall (Oh) how I wish I could forget those (Those) happy yesteryears

Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye I just wish I could have told him in the living years Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come

If tomorrow I found one more chance to begin I'd love you all over again Has it been ten years Since we said I do I've always heard marriage made one seem like two But you're looking better than you did back then You still make this old heart give in And

Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly foe A wondrous dream came into being Tame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chaste All shining eyes, but never seeing Beneath the noble birth Between the proudest words Behind the beauty, cracks appear Once,

All the haters, all the lovers All the people I ain't seen in too many years All the friends that are more like brothers All the faces in the bleachers Yeah this one's for the ones who got me here The ones that I drank all those beers with Made it

You try to live your life from day to day But seeing you across the room tonight Just gives me away The heart won't lie Looking back over the years Of All the things I've always meant to say But words didn't come easily So many times through empty fears

These are the days our lives will change and we will see our worlds collide Life is a journey throughout the years that pass a lesson to be learned There is a purpose to all that we encounter in this existence What builds us up may one day break us down