Time Badly Spent

from I Forgive Myself by Frank Piekert

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This song was inspired by a youtube clip where Jim Carrey talks about Eckhart Tolle´s book A New Earth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tqoWwIDCCw

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I am through, with the life I´ve lived
I´m through with the life I´ve known
It was no life, just survival
I thought I´d make it on my own

I was lost, I was really lost
Was lost in the movement of thought
I spent years, just surviving
The war inside my head I fought

It´s time badly spent worrying ´bout tomorrow
It´s time badly spent getting caught in yesterday

I am free, I am free at last
The silence is good to hear
But I remember what it felt like
The hurt, the suffering, the tears

´cause in my mind I created things
Things that didn´t even exist
I guess pain was my addiction
A drug I never could resist

It´s time badly spent worrying ´bout tomorrow
It´s time badly spent getting caught in yesterday

It´s a waste, it´s a waste of time
Trying to control everything
Letting go is the answer
And having faith in what tomorrow brings

||: It´s time badly spent worrying ´bout tomorrow
It´s time badly spent getting caught in yesterday :||

||: It drags you down, keeps pain around
It makes you frown, you hit the ground – yeah, that´s what you´ll do
It drags you down, keeps pain around
It makes you frown, you hit the ground :||

I am through, with the life I´ve lived

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from I Forgive Myself, released December 18, 2011

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