Nothing is forever and good things never lastnAnd learning in the future is based on lessons from the past nI thought we were gold in the fire nAnd we could not be burnedn'Till you lost your desire and I melted to learnnnI thought I could keep you from changing shapenBut two people cannot believe on one man's faithnnAnd your love it was an hourglassnWhat I thought I'd found was too good to lastnAnd your love it was a promise madenBut your lock and key held a broken chainnnAnd now when I see you I just don't understandnAnd all I needed from you then nHas now become all the time on my handsnnIt was torture to see it comin' as we reached the end of days nThe sands of time were fallin' from a premature heart decaynAnd as I stood in falsehood, in our final hournI prayed for the roots of a redwood nBut you withered like a flowernnAnd when you finally spoke the words that broke my heartnI couldn't blame you too much 'cause I knew from the start