New Year

I won't make any resolutions this year

Cause what's the point of false condolences

Packaged up as care

Cause when I look in the mirror all that I see

Is another year spent chasing shadows

And inevitable conceit

And though I try to keep them alive

My dreams keep fading faster

Dissipating in front of my eyes

So what's the point in trying to hold on

When everything I want just slips away

Like summer rain

It's here but then it's gone

This year I've never felt so alone

A hundred miles from my home

But I'm no rolling stone

I prayed and prayed for change to finally come

Isn't it funny how life can be an ironic thing

It takes what we didn't know we had

And all I ever wanted was love

But every chance I got I blew it

For fear of being alone

I thought it would be different this year

But the nearer I get it only seems like this year's

Just like last year

Throwing my life away

So I won't make any resolutions this year

Cause I know that everything I want

Seems to crumble in the end

What's the point in trying to hold on

When everything I want just slips away

Like summer rain

It's here but then it's gone

It's gone

I knew better than to take you for a fool

But I showed my cards and I broke the rules

I knew better than to let you walk away

But it's not my place to ask you to stay

I knew better than to ask for more than my share

But I was selfish and life's just not fair

I said I'd do better but I'm just not that type

I'll always let you down

I'll always make you cry

There's no hope in changing me

I'm just a broken record

Someday you'll see

That I'm too ruined and you're too pure

With me you'll never make it

In this mean old world

I knew better than to take you for a fool