Twilight of Our Prime

We woke this morning below a guillotine

There'd been fair warning, but not that we had seen

We'd been too drunken to watch the dangling blade

The fall's so sudden, no execution's stayed

The only truth we ever found is that our youth is gonna drown

In the ocean of sodden dreams

Now it's the twilight of our prime,

we'll see in hindsight it's a crime

That we could not find the sublime in every minute

Now it's the twilight of our prime, we get a finite happy time

But it's a gift to which we're blind when we are in it

Heat-seeking missiles are tearing through the sky

Our pride will kindle a temperature so high

Wherever we go, the rockets will be bound

Our blazing ego is too cool to cool down

Monotony is special when I'm sharing it with you

It's practically essential to a love that's really true

We're so inconsequential in the glory of it all

So don't get sentimental when there's nothing to recall