Shattered Dreams

Brought up on broken promises A thousand times I've tried Nose pressed against the windowpane To fathom why they lied A carefree kid, a golden child Starting life so sure That everyone and everything Would always be that pure But how soon disappointment came In every clever guise I realised the sham of life Reflected in my eyes Shattered dreams Shattered dreams Promises never kept Teardrops shed a thousand times A thousand times I've wept Crystal fragments Sapphire blue Cascades of silver tears Waterfalls of love and hate Down throughout the years Sounds and smells of times of gone by Echoes of distant years Hazy memories Summer nights A lifetime's hopes and fears Sitting here and gazing out Through the looking-glass Wondering how we came so far With futures built on pasts Shattered dreams Shattered dreams Promises never kept Teardrops shed a thousand times A thousand times I've wept Crystal fragments Sapphire blue Cascades of silver tears Waterfalls of love and hate Down throughout the years Please tell me what it's all about What it's all been for We live our lives We love our lives But still we quest for more And in the end when life is done And we're in our winter time Tell me, was it worth it Was life so very fine Was life so very fine Was life so very fine