Faded dreams still haunt my nights
Echoes whisper old delights
Once a fire now just smoke
Life a cruel relentless joke
Youth has slipped from nimble hands
Shattered goals like broken plans
Time it drags me through the mire
Facing ghosts of lost desire
Lost in echoes of days gone by
Searching answers asking why
Can't reclaim the years that fade
Chasing shadows in the shade
Eyes that once could pierce the sky
Now just gaze and wonder why
Memories a bittersweet refrain
In a world that feels insane
Held by chains I cannot see
Bound by time that won't set free
Life it turns a twisted dance
Caught in waves of circumstance
Lost in echoes of days gone by
Searching answers asking why
Can't reclaim the years that fade
Chasing shadows in the shade