See your old clothes on some junkies back Watch your furniture get up and leave Have pity on those who've gotta suffer from their own hand And watch what they have get up and disappear A chapter must be closed A chapter must be closed It can't go on and on and on and on You gotta shut it down and start it up again It can't go on and on and on and on I'm not gonna rise up like a Phoenix from the fire and fly away Not gonna hold hands with the whole wide world on an endless sunny day Why can't people accept it may just be the way it always was They're so wrapped up in fantasy Oh, a chapter must be closed A chapter must be closed It can't go on and on and on and on You gotta shut it down, to start it up again It can't go on and on and on and on