v1 He said he would be king or nothing
Only an echo in the ruins
There's ever so much room for nothing in the world
Along with all the busted dreams of would-be kings in dusty tombs

v2 I make my life no ultimatums
It has not learned to genuflect
Try not to curse my luck for too long
To love a dream, is to know that they defect

r And may this open handed message hold me ever

v3 She said she'd never, ever settle
Put all that pressure on herself
Now she owns the most expensive view of heaven
From the highest point in hell

c I wagered all my worth
Wrote it out to aspiration
My windswept soul a vagabond
And as I wept beside the river
The music of forever
Dropped its banks without a shudder
And carried on

v5 I take my sermon from the river
Easy between the rocks and stones
This life, my vigil and my lover
When there is nothing I would kill my joy to hold

r And may this open handed message hold me ever
And as I wept beside the river
The music of forever
Dropped its banks without a shudder
And carried on
And carried on
And carried on
And carried on

chorus  Oh, oh, oh, I'm going again

Here I go again
Another sad old day, my friend
Keeping time - time ain't no friend of mine

And you, you're making me feel it,
I know you, you're doing the worst that you can do
I used to be blind to all the pain
But when you're around it feels so strange

You're making me feel it, I know, you

repeat chorus


 Here we go again
Another sad mistake my friend
What have we learned?
We fly too high, get burned

But we, we're keeping our wings to fly away
So we can get burned another day
I used to be blind to all the pain
But now I see scars that still remain

You're making me feel it, I know, you

Oh, oh, oh, I'm going again

repeat chorus