In The Last Days of Ninety-Nine

I'm sitting all alone in a crowd next to me

Wondering out low where the future might be

The dog has been fed and the news is on time

In the last days of ninety nine

We have come a long way and nowhere at all

We talk a big game but seldom answer the call

We're all racing ahead and falling way behind

In the last days of ninety nine

We yearn for reason and look for truth

It all slips away like the days of our youth

We roam the world in search of God

Without ever looking in our own backyard

I'm sitting all alone in a crowd next to me

Wondering out low where the future might be

The dog has been fed and the news is on time

In the last days of ninety nine

We've run so far with our blinders on

That we don't know even know

How long we've been gone

We'll take a swim in our neighbor's pool

Bring a sandwich... and a handgun to school

Go to bed a genius and wake up a fool

We yearn for reason and look for truth

It all slips away like the days of our youth

We roam the world in search of God

Without ever looking in our own backyard

The Clearwater Madonna silently weeps

And the last I heard... the Walrus still sleeps

We creep-up to the fences but never over the line

In the last days of ninety nine

I'm sitting all alone in a crowd next to me

Wondering out low where the future might be

The dog has been fed and the news is on time

In the last days of ninety nine

in the last days of ninety nine