Pass Me By

from Take Heart, It's Almost Over by Mark McCabe

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You declare that the game must have changed while you were away, but you’re just out of shape
It’s rather sad to see you chasing a prize no longer there, the sweat’s in your eyes.
You don’t know that it’s all over now.
You stand alone on the field.
Born a winner, but you lost and it hurts
And life passed you by while you hid.

You were barely a child the first time they took you away, your limbs black and blue
Colour drains from your face even now thinking back to what they would do
You built a fortress around your mind
The only place you could heal
Painted words high on every side
‘Don’t let life pass me by while I hide.’

Grab a pencil and outline the pain in your heart then colour it in.
Hang it framed from the walls of your chest and watch it fade, as it starts the blend in.
Till you’ll know that it’s there but you won’t now quite where and you’ll know that it’s time to move on.
Yeah you’ll know that it’s there, but you just can’t say where, and you’ll know that it’s time to move on.

Life became trashy novels and soaps long ago, it’s all that I need.
It might seem from an outsiders view I’ve never moved, but age beats us all.
If you’d seen what I’d done with my life,
All the problems I’ve solved.
You’d allow me to quieten my mind
And let life pass me by whilst I hide.

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from Take Heart, It's Almost Over, released June 5, 2020

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