I could tell you the wildest of tales   My friend, the giant and traveling sales   Tell you all the times that I failed   The years all behind me the stories exhaled      And I'm drying out   Crying out   This isn't how I go      I could tell you of a man not so tall   Who said life's a circus and so we are small   Tell you of a girl that I saw   I froze in the moment and she changed it all      And I'm drying out, crying out   This isn't how I go   Hurry now, lay me down   And let these waters flow, flow      Son, I am not everything   You thought that I would be   But every story I have told   Is part of me      You keep the air in my lungs   Floating along as a melody comes   And my heart beats like Timpani drums   Keeping the time while a symphony strums      And I'm drying out, crying out   This isn't how I go   Hurry now, lay me down   And let these waters flow, flow   Let it flow, let it flow      Son, I am not everything   You thought that I would be   But every story I have told   Is part of me      Son, I leave you now   But you have so much more to do   And every story I have told   Is part of you