From the recording Mid-Life Angst
I wrote the music to this nearly a year before I penned "Teenagers" but it had some dark, depressing lyrics and I had to let it go. Revisited a year later, I set the humor of "Teenagers" and "Application" aside and tried addressing the thoughts of introspection, contemplation, fear and paranoia in a different light; one that is not so 'down'. This became an up-beat, folk-pop number with the milling of an audience before and after ala "Cheap Thrills."
Lyrics
Mass elation, contemplation
Fairly easy in the end
Times hereafter, bathed in laughter
Won’t give weariness the win
Cause I know, there ain’t no riches waiting
Paranoia, hardly knew ya
It’s not the fear I throw around
Ever wonder, pasts and yonder
If what you seek is ever found
But I know, there ain’t no sense in waiting
I keep searching
But it’s moving much too fast
Time I fear more than ever
And it won’t come back now
Oooh I’m not down
Introspection, Resurrection
I can’t know what isn’t mine
Mark the season, of the reason
We’re all taught to nevermind
‘Cause I know, it’s either now or later
Don’t stop me I’m not done fighting
I’ve got so much to do still
Just need to find my way
I’m not over the hill
I’m not down
I’m not down
And I know, it won’t take forever
And I know, we’re all here together
And I know, there’s enough to go around