Oblivion Unveiled

Written in July 68
This is the first song I ever wrote...
just getting started on the years of alcoholism

Your lips are sewed, your eyes are glued
Your legacy is solitude
Dead you are and dead you'll stay
And God will never come your way

Your mind is live, it seems absurd
You talk and shout, but are not heard
Poor soul, where's your vanity
What's left to you's insanity

Your mind is filled with thoughts of gloom
Soon they'll put you in your tomb
Infinity alies in wait
You'll have to spend it in your crate

The end of love is always cryin'
The end of living is always dying
The end is pointless, that fact is clear
What reason could have brought you here?

Is there a fate? Is there a plan?
Time to think if you only can
Was there ever life or just deception
On the periphery of your perception?

We'll think these thoughts, just you and I
For one day soon I too will die
And when my living at last has failed
I'll see oblivion unveiled

©1997 by Doug Franklin
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