Future Tense

Be careful what you wish for

Don't you know it might come true?

While the lives we're slowly leading now

Are always fleeting out of view

You've strained so hard to see it

That the rest got in the way

Until you stopped to close the big top down

And found the reasons far too late

This life is what you make it

As the mocking birds all sing

While the focus fades to waste away

It doesn't mean a thing

And every time you're listening

Does it really make much sense?

I'm tired of living in the future tense

I'm tired of living in the future tense

Be careful what you wish for

Is it really just a dream?

As you sleep with your obsessions dear

You'll find that nothing's as it seems

Ugliness is real, I feel that you can't even see

And that's why you're still begging on your knees

This life is what you make it

As the mocking birds all sing

While the focus fades to waste away

It doesn't mean a thing

And every time you're listening

Does it really make much sense?

I'm tired of living in the future tense

I'm tired of living in the future tense

Leave me to my vices, honey

Won't you leave me in suspense?

I'm tired of living in the future tense

I'm tired of living in the future tense