You were young one time, tracing all the jets at night,
nothing but love inside you, funny how your life drifts by.
Look at you, now older and you're wiser still,
but death and taxes tend to kill the child in you,
and suddenly you feel anger looming in the back of your mind
But the world will not change its stride
Look closer and you find it's you that's holding tight to time.
Feel your head fall as the spirits from your past call, "hey there,"
from beyond the grave, feel your tears dry away, the Universe was already saved.
And if you're looking back distracted by the sound that
paradise is crumbling down, there's no secrets held in this part of town.
Walls built upon a grain of sand, monuments of iron glorifying man;
To dust as they began.
Your way will be cleared, though the evils you fear will beset your path with knives
Don't look back child, be at peace within your mind.
Feel your head fall as the spirits from your past call, "hey there,"
from beyond the grave, feel your tears dry away, the Universe was already saved.
You and I by what we leave behind someday will be survived,
with an open hand or a fist closed tight.
And should you feel you’re tempted by the dark and
easy path toward the diamond's glow.
The garden on the road grows from seeds you've sown.
By the light of the sun, over the divide, rise my City of Platinum.
And the guns have finally stopped, the smoke is clearing,
clattering of loaded ammunition dropped.
And the ground will heal and the sky clear and you hear sounds of living, playing in your ears.
From the pit, a sound escapes the depth of the flames; it took a million years to get here
but just look around, at the miracle we became.
Ain't it good to be alive, I see a Platinum City rise in the eye of my mind.
