Ten Days

10 days left and I don’t know why
I ever felt the need to fly
Down the highway that Wednesday night

9 days left and I’m home alone
My parents won’t pick up
The goddamn phone
Because they’re disappointed
In the prodigal son

8 days left and I’m spent working
Off the money that I spent doing
Stupid things never cost me anything

Slow down, slow down, slow down, slow down
Because life passes you by faster
With every mile per hour you go

7 days left and that just week
I never knew I could feel so weak
From doing nothing yet
Everything never wanted to do

6 days left and I’m still alive
When I wake up tomorrow it’ll five
And five will melt into 4 more reasons
Why I never learned to swim

4 scores and 7 years ago
Our founding fathers
Had a desire to know
What penalties lay awaiting
For an unsuspecting self-respecting boy

Slow Down, slow down, slow down, slow down
Because life passes you by faster
With every mile per hour you go

3 days left now and I’m riding
My Gary Fisher everywhere I go
Taking the slow road
Is always worth your wait in gold

2 days left and I’m starving
Starving from what I can’t decide
Will my hunger fade with the sunset
And the rising tide?

1 day left and I can almost
Smell cucumber melon in your hair
As you knowingly stare at a familiar face
As replace your thoughts

Of what a bad person I really am
Of what horrible person I am
Cause faster spells disaster
In a language known to many hearts
Grown with regret
And if you consider yourself wise
My story you shall never forget