Distractions lyrics

Life is filled with them

Distractions everywhere

Years of school and mates

Youth pressing on and on

As an adult still more come

Days of work, the old routine

They drone and on to years

Until they come to retirement

In between the mediums

Television, phone, computer

The light, the noise comforting

Whilst life flees away slowly

So slowly, so very routine

Ebbing out without cease

But an age is limited surely

All things come to an end

Distractions, they abound

They comfort us in loneliness

N'er to confront life or self

N'er to know true self and place

A place in this world, known

To find a meaning, each to their own

What it was, is, and will be

Scary as it is, silent, looming

Living life through others

Through sports, movies, games

N'er knowing existence, bared

Its victories and failures

But then a day, like any other

Finds the distractions menial

It shines life, but the end near

Denial and regret set in hard

Like a speeding train passing by

Nothing but a rumbling blur

Unexpectantly approaching near

Bringing shivers of terror severe

So when it passes, a silence

The vortex of disorientation

Comes to draw the soul out headlong

From the body and its distractions