Scratch n Sniff

When at first I, far too timid Take what's owed me, it's not only the Fear of doing and consequence It's the absence of free will If you never scratch away You'll never get a sniff You'll never know a life not this Such distraction can be soothing You may cherish such daydreaming Starting over's always tempting Attend the nature of those tears If you never scratch away The scab of what you know You'll never know its scent You'll never know its pull You'll never know its pull You'll never know it Scratch you start from scratch You start from scratch You start and never looking Back to where you came from Never looking back You start from sniff But only if You've got the gift Of never stopping talking Never, ever stopping Where did all the time go I only got one throw Plans are for the hungry I cut all the wrong keys And now I can't get in and my own History evaded me But there are those who live to tell The favourable, the sweetest smelling truth Cauterise and give me cover Oh memory and simple fickle feeling It ain't no thing wallow while you're wondering Oh where did all the dreams go You chose to turn them down low The trick of perspective You don't remember why though Somewhere I went wrong Decisions linger on As I fall into a life of compromise You take it with a pinch and close your eyes to other things It's the only way The lonely way to be Take it with a pinch and close your eyes to other things It's the only way The only way to play Where did all the time go? You only get one throw Where did all the dreams go? Cut and paste another one today