You never kept it secret, but forgive me if I cry The first thing you promised is we would say goodbye But you didn't say when, you didn't say how You told me not to stress and to keep my head down But I peeked, and (Now you can see me coming from a mile away) I didn't write the play but I still got lines to say Got my life today Got my pages and I'm a pro so I know that the show's Gotta go when the light's bright on stage (places) Life is mean it's been months since I seen her But I still got that picture of us out in Argentina on my wall Why'd I do it again, when I know how it ends? Coulda seen it Coming from a mile away Coming from a mile away Coming from a mile away Coming from a mile away Coming from a mile away I used to think I'd been built to race I'd run uphill at a filthy pace for like fifty years Fuck that shit, better fill a vase, Pick some roses and chill a case of like fifty beers Been spending too many nights running Inside of my mind from what I can spy coming Come a knocking on my creaky back door No sneak attacks dork, pop a cork It's another year another party Wow, can you believe December's here Of course I can, we say the same shit every fuckin year So let's get the next one out the way right now "Wow, can you believe that it's al—" —we're not slowing down What trips me out is not the pace of the foot race It's that we're here in the first place, look around There's no time to miss the past, the future is coming fast And it's screaming at us You can see me coming from a mile away