Broken

Music and Lyric by David W. Jacobsen
© 2008. All Rights Reserved.

It's only a matter of time
Before everything's broken
It's only a matter of time
Before everything's broken

Who can really claim to know
What would have been
If we hadn't lost the fight

But after spending all the spoils
The victor often finds
Himself in an unintended plight

And the towers that we scale
The ones we topple
The ones that we shall build

It is worth the fight but still
One must always ponder
The more full, the easier spilled

It's only a matter of time
Before everything's broken
It's only a matter of time
Before everything's broken

As the tyrants take the reigns
Driving us far off course
Where the path is hard to see

But when we've been led astray
For too long we may find
There shall be a mutiny

Those who simply follow
Never stop to ask
Get no harvest though they reap

I know the crowds are hard to face
When they have momentum
But most of men are merely sheep

It's only a matter of time / All in good time
Before everything's broken / Everything is broken
It's only a matter of time / All in good time
Before everything's broken / Everything is broken

Don't forget a promise
Don't lose sight of things
If you don't quickly receive

Those who bar your way right now
May be gone tomorrow
Don't you waste the time to grieve

It's only a matter of time / All in good time
Before everything's broken / Everything is broken
It's only a matter of time / All in good time
Before everything's broken / Everything is broken