When the music floats across the airwaves
Pictures come flooding to the mind
Collages of color, vivid and natural
The wild and the free, the beautiful and the simple
Now only captured in melancholic memories
Education brought much wisdom
And wisdom brought much hunger
For things only money could buy
And now time itself
Cannot bring back the simple life
The pursuits of my heart
Took me to unfamiliar places
Where the cold has pierced many hearts
And the laughter of the simple life
Has dissolved into wishful feelings
Where is the sense of balance
When the agent of progress
Has traded the soul for the world
And there is no turning back
To the pleasures of the simple life
© 1998 Tendai Dawanyi, all rights reserved
