It's like we've driven past a phantom tollboothnThe brother watchdogs are counting timenRhyme and Reason held captive in a castlenBut we're doing finennNever look down the road todaynPast the ending linenDown the road, as we go, still we knownWe're never stopping, but we're doing finennIt's like a playground of the mind, nAnd we'll right whatever we findnWe'll set it downnnBut still, we'll never peter outn'Til the time runs the meter outnAnd the toll is just too much for us to paynBut still, we know it's better, thoughnin this world like we'll never knownAre we giving it all up to fade away?nnIt's like a meeting with Short ShriftnThe meaning shift as time breaks apartnWith each day as it melts away nFrom an empty heartnYour thoughts tripped, the pages slippednWe never got too farnYou watch as your last night nRecedes from the light of a rising starnnConducting sunlight back to the daynWe make the morning symphony playnLike never before, but never againnIt's slipping awaynnBut down here in the doldrumsnWe sleep like we're all rightnLet's put out heads together nTo escape the coming nightnDown here in the doldrumsnNeglected as we fightnSo busy jumping to conclusions nOur hearts never see the lightnnDon't fade away