The Father Time Trilogy - Anaka

Father time

The lesson that I learned

The lesions that I’ve earned

Were so unkind

Fading mind

The forces that decide

In your hands reside

You’re so divine

Wasted time

The heartache that you spurned

The faith that you burned

I was all mine

Forsaken by my father time

Yeah and I’ve seen it all

I’ve seen it through night and I’ll see it through day

And I’ve seen the dying crawl

Dying with their backs against the wall

And I’ve seen them look to the sky

Asking what they’ve always asked of you

And it makes me wonder why

Even great men are no match for you

Yeah don’t let it be

My time

Yeah don’t let this be

My time

Yeah and I’ve walked the walk

I’ve never met a challenge I wouldn’t face

And it’s left me broken down

But you never stop dying til you’re in the ground

And you know I ain’t afraid to die

Just let me breathe your life for one more day

That I might say goodbye

Goodbye to this world that never needed me

Yeah don’t let it be

My time

Yeah don’t let this be

My time

As you fix the rules and you choose and decide

Know that I’m not here by the whim of the tide

Rising from the depths of my soul heart and mind

Standing on my own as I rage against time

Off the beaten path that I paved made it mine

I never knew the price I would pay over time

And now as I stand at the end of all things

So unafraid of what the moment brings

Yeah and what’s done is done

I know I ain’t afraid to face you now

And I guess that’s the way it goes

When your time is up your time is due

And the reasons no one knows

When living means dying and dying means dead

I guess that’s all there is

Someone once said it gets better than this

Don’t let it be

My time

Yeah don’t let this be

My time

Father time

The lesson that I learned

The lesions that I’ve earned

Were so unkind

Fading mind

The forces that decide

In your hands reside

You’re so divine

Wasted time

The heartache that you spurned

The faith that you burned

I was all mine

Forsaken by my father time

(Warrior speaking)