The Unbelievable Truth

It’s been thirty-odd years now just plugging away
And dreaming on the impossible dream
Yet, I really wouldn’t want it any other way
Because looking back is better perspective than what it might seem

Now I tell you of the unbelievable truth
An aging body with the spirit of youth

I really could have made music with that girl from The Sundays
But she was already spoken for
Hypnotic Harriet has a hold to this day
She kicked this boy, here’s where the story ends once more

Let me tell you of the unbelievable truth
The sense of a young man growing long in the tooth

The most beautiful don’t always end up with the most beautiful
And there’s a lot of famous people nobody’s heard of
We were young once too, and might have EVEN been more naïve than you
And there’s not a single angle that we haven’t played
It doesn't matter what they say
This stuff will always play

With one foot in the grave
And the other on the stage

No, I never caught it up with that girl from Frente!
So sure enough she never called
Her wings were anything but ordinary
But I only got the world for my birthday and that was all

Now I’m living proof of the unbelievable truth
The spirit trumps the vessel, absolute