Just me... I occasionally sit in with friends
Story behind the song
Thinking what it must feel like to a person near the end of life. Like an old man with dementia, going through the motions of everyday life.
Lyrics
Sitting here trying to remember
All the things I not supposed to forget
Another year slipping past me
I'm just another day closer to death.
And as time slips away
At the end of the day
I'm like a light at the end of the hall
Turned off.
Now it's morning again and the sun's shining in
As it burns away the morning frost
Trade my bed for a chair... and I...
Sit over there..like a well trained lap dog
And the TVs so loud
Like a big city crowd
but I can't hear a word at all
Turned off
Turned off like a light
At the end of the night
As the sun slowly goes down
Now it's Jello and pills
And piles of Hospital bills
Stacked up on a TV tray
I watch old movie shows
For reasons nobody knows
With no expression at all on my face
And the Home Nurse comes in
To stick my finger again
But I don't feel the needle at all
I'm turned off.
