Past Recedes Lyrics - Curtains - John Frusciante

And then the past recedes 

and I won't be involved 

The effort to be free 

Seems pointless from above 

You're looking down at me 

I'd rather stay below 

Than have you staring up at me 

It is nowhere I want to go 

Ay, this business of how long we try to stay alive 

Why to be here you first got to die 

so I gave it a try 

And what do you know 

Time was so long ago 

And things come back you see 

To where they don't belong 

and every drop of sea is the whole ocean 

I lied to the greatest thieves 

about anything and everything 

I'm a figure of forgotten speech 

I'm out of reach 

I can't play it safe 

But I might just in case 

I'm disguised as a reaching hand 

I'm a working man 

I don't understand why clockout 

comes so slow everytime 

That's one line I stay right behind