And then the past recedes  and I won't be involved  The effort to be free  Seems pointless from above  You're looking down at me  I'd rather stay below  Than have you staring up at me  It is nowhere I want to go  Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive  Why to be here you first got to die  so I gave it a try  And what do you know  Time was so long ago  And things come back you see  To where they don't belong  and every drop of sea is the hole ocean  I lied to the greatest thieves  about anything and everything  I'm a figure of forgotten speech  I'm out of reach  I can't play it safe  But I'm might just in case  I'm disguised as a reaching hand  I'm a working man  I don't understand why clockout  come so slow everytime  That's one line I stay right behind