Scared of losing all the time   He wrote it in a letter   He was a friend of mine   He heard you could see your future   Inside a glass of water   The ripples and the rhymes   He asked ‘Will I see heaven in mine?’      That is just the way it was   Nothing could be better   And nothing ever was   And they say you could see a future,   Inside a glass of water   With ripples and the rhymes   But Will I see heaven in mine?   Oh Oh Oh      Ah Son, don’t ask,   Neither how full nor empty is your glass   Cling to the mast   Spend your whole life living in the past   Going nowhere fast      So he wrote it on the wall   The hollowest of halos   Is no halo at all   And television’s said and past   In figurines and leaders   saying nothing at all   And he chimed stars in heaven aligned   Oh Oh Oh      Ah Son, don’t ask,   Neither how full nor empty is your glass   Cling to the mast   Spend your whole life living in the past   Going nowhere fast      [instrumental]      What are we drinking when we’re done?   Just glasses of water