Your Best Years

all your grand plans and gritted teeth. all your pride.
they’ll cut you down to count the rings. measure out your worst years.
count off the days.
write on the walls. who wants to live this way. bent by the breeze until you
stay. or you break.
yeah, we’ve had better years.
but bad years look better when they’re gone. count down the days until you get
away. check your last list.
yeah, we’ve had better years.
but bad years look better when they’re gone. bent by the breeze until you stay.
or you break.
all your grand plans and gritted teeth. all your bent and burnt pride.
they’ll cut you down to count the rings. measure out your worst years.
we’re bent into shape. we stay or we break.