Name: Forty
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: What it's like to feel old

Forty

from Number Theory by Zeta

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What it's like to feel old

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The years go by, quick as a roving eye
The things you haven’t done start playing on your mind

Forty would always scare me
Now it’s caught me
Regrets of opportunities missed

The pain of age, half way to the grave
It’s so mundane but nothing takes away this pain

Forty was waiting for me
Now it’s trapped me, and I can’t get away
Forty would always scare me
Now it’s caught me
Regrets of opportunities missed
Regrets of opportunities missed

I always wanted to write a novel
I wanted wealth and career success
But now the game has changed, I’m playing for second prize
Priorities re-arranged, ambitions unrealised
So hard to accept the blame, so easy to live a lie

And so the days pass by in a haze
I look back upon my youth from looming middle age

Forty was waiting for me
Now it’s trapped me, and I can’t get away
Forty would always scare me
Now it’s caught me
Regrets of opportunities missed
Regrets of opportunities missed
Regrets of opportunities missed
Regrets of opportunities missed

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from Number Theory, released February 12, 2012
Music & lyrics by Simon Pollack
Arranged and produced by Simon Pollack
Recorded at Chestnut Studio, UK
Vocals: Simon Pollack
Piano: Simon Pollack

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