Life in Three Dimensions

Fortune has bestowed on me The very gift that is to be For all that was to come before To open this unlikely door To a world of worlds With ever more to see Than any ancestors could Have surely every dreamed Now it seems I'll stick around As long as my foresight allows Nature willing, ample time Is there a reason I might find? To have been at all Other than to see How a giant falls from What it surely should have been I've been living upon this soil now for a while With an ever lesser sense of where I came from Having broken the chains With a hand on the reigns Of a steed that's picking up some speed And approaching a fork in the road Remind me to breathe Though the road I've come from seems it's drenched in blood And it is though I've got miles still yet to travel Think of what I can do, I can walk on the moon The beginnings of a legacy Should I find yet a reason to be Remind to breathe I've been picking up and putting down What I already knew But it seems to me unfamiliar In shape and in hue I've been stripped of all the words that otherwise Might have been use For a life at its end But with as much as ever to lose All these moments I'm keeping in store For the days when I can't be myself anymore And if memory fades as my own might as well I'll at least have been cast upon by this spell Is it enough to know that I was here a while To see you were born Then I blink, you grow, you're here, I'm gone The story goes on And still the chance of being here at all Remains to be slim For every life on this planet There's a hundred have already lived All these moments I'm keeping in store For the days when I can't be myself anymore And if memory fades as my own might as well I'll at least have been cast upon by this spell All these moments I'm keeping in store For the days when I can't be myself anymore And if memory fades as my own might as well I'll at least have been cast upon by this spell Fortune has bestowed on me The very gift that is to be For all that was to come before To open this unlikely door