Great Expectations - The New Year

About the ways I was trapped

I thought I was moving

My skin was improving

On my face and on my back

But the one thing I never lacked

Was the faith you’d always come back

How could I have been so wrong

Ten years later I’m not more a savior

I still can’t convince the dead not to die

I thought I was growing

My age has been showing

Is that just a way age can lie

What led me to feel so secure

This was the one thing we couldn’t insure

How could have been so wrong

As I get older should I get bolder

Or will disappoint be even worse

And once I start shrinking

Should I start thinking

That expectations never die