Lone Dancer

Note: If anyone's actually reading this, which I don't think is happening, this is a song and sounds much better with music.

I almost died tonight walking on a foot of ice.
Well, that's life and it's not so high a price.

When I got home, I picked up the phone,
called a friend and he said
"Well, you just don't get it, do you?
Do you know what it's like to wake up alone?"
And I said, "Sure," because it's all I've ever known.

So I wake up early every morning and craft my day,
I tell him make it worthy,
it's the small memories that stay,
but don't dwell in yesterday.

I live for the moment,
so the present won't pass.
I'm slipping and sliding
and hoping that someday, Someday comes.

But he said "Well, you just don't get it, do you?
Life just full of lies."
And I said it's no big secret that the baby grows into the man who dies.
He said "You're too young and never have had to wake up alone."
And I said, "Youth is the myth of age and it's all I've ever known."

I almost died tonight walking on a foot of ice.
Well, that's life and it's not so high a price.

I'm the lone dancer,
Time circumvents my answers.
I tread on thin ice
and I fall through.

I'm the lone dancer
and I endure,
don't ask for an answer,
'cause this is all I've ever known.