One man, speaking the truth   No one likes when it fits   So we tell soothing lies   And betray our own lips      The uncivilized world   And its people decay   One sweet breeze is defiled   Sucking our breath away      Yesterdays answers   Has nothing to do   With todays questions      Life can only be understood   In reverse   But must be lived forwards   I'm losing my senses   I'm losing my senses      And we watch   As the living, all die   Contemplating if we should   Ever open our eyes      If all that we touch   Keeps turning to sand   We will cease to exist   Until the last living man      Yesterdays answers   Has nothing to do   With todays questions      Life can only be understood   In reverse   But must be lived forward      Life can only be understood   In reverse   But must be lived forward   I'm losing my senses      Yesterdays answers   Has nothing to do   With todays questions      Life can only be understood   In reverse   But must be lived forward      Life can only be understood   In reverse   But must be lived forwards