Six years from now all our luck will have run out And it's not that great as it is But there is a pill for those who are living, still To transport our minds back to happier times Back to all those years I wasted On the outside, looking in Well, I never had the health to ruin myself Nor the courage to dabble in sin Six years ago is the farthest they can throw All our sleeping minds without damage And six years ago is the last time that I know When the world was clean and green And I'll watch myself out walking Unaware of what will come No compulsion to derive all I could out of life Just contented to wander and roam There's nothing here, nothing in the present year To persuade my mind to hold on But just for a while won't you stay with me and smile Till the clouds roll in and I'm gone And I lacked the drive to let go And the strength to just give in And I never had the health to ruin myself Nor the courage to dabble in sin No, I never had the pride to let myself slide And now I never will