In My Wilderness - Janis Ian

Rain falls on the shadow lands

Washing all my plans away

Time flies, stretched across the sands

Slow mirages dance and play

Hidden in a corner of my mind

There’s a place where nothing’s left behind

In my wilderness

In my wilderness

In my wilderness

Four walls cannot hold the dreams

Struggling in between these lines

Words fall, bursting at the seams

Splitting on the rocks and rhymes

Every day’s another chance to fail

Honesty’s the only thing for sale

In my wilderness

In my wilderness

In my wilderness

Time flies, shadows on the wall

Try and catch a falling star

How high can you rise at all

If you’re scared to fall too far

I become a thief of time

Just to watch it all unwind

In my wilderness

In my wilderness

In my wilderness