Once there was a child in the world of the forgotten
Who'd sit and watch the stage from a stranger's eyes
The lights so captivating, you could lose yourself inside
And the mind of an eager dreamer open wide

Life will pass on by and some dreams may go forgotten
Left collecting dust in a stranger time
Surrounded by the blur of trudging through the hazy darkness
The morning light will bleed into the day

And lately on my mind I find the world I had forgotten
An echo of a dream that used to be
And when I do I find I'm not the same as when I wrought them
The crashing tides of time have got to me

But in this moment I believe
That I could find my way back to such perfect clarity
It seems that I have left something behind
Lost within a maze inside my mind

A piece of the puzzle is missing inside my mind
And now I can't find
Where I drew the line
Where I lost my drive
I've been stuck here treading water trying to survive

And it occurs to me that I'm not where I envisioned
When I used to hold an image
Of the future as a vision of idyllic life
Well here I am
And I paid the price in pennies of sacrifice

A little more apathy will get me through the day
And I convince myself that it's still okay
It's still coming, it's still coming
It's not gone yet, it's still coming

I can't remember the last time I was honest with myself
There's something missing
There's something gone
It left a hole, and now I see

There's something it gave to me, something I lost
Something I failed to see, despite the cost
It's been eating away at me, been wearing me down
Been tearing away at all the certainty I'd found

And in this moment I believe
That I could find my way back to such perfect clarity
It seems that I have left something behind
Lost within a maze inside my mind

Once I held a secret, I held it in my hands
And I could see the future then, before I could understand
Now I know the mystery, but I can't see the truth
And I can't see the picture that I held so fast in youth

And it's gone, and it's gone
When the darkness pulls the strings that keep the light away
And it's gone, and it's gone
Yet I still can feel it flicker out of sight

But in this moment I believe
That I could find my way back to such perfect clarity
It seems that I have left something behind
Lost within a maze inside my mind

And in this moment I can see
The path was always somewhere just beyond my memory
It seems that I have let myself be blind
Trapped within a maze inside my mind

Once I was a child in the world of the forgotten
And as I lived my life I lost myself along the way
Before I am consumed by all the fear that now surrounds me
I'll catch the dying light as it fades away

And lately on my mind I find the world I had forgotten
I can't let it slip away from me
And now I have to find a way to bring back what I lost then
'Cause I won't let it slip away from me