• Just when the sea calms down, a hurricane comes to rile it,
    Just when the grains of sand in an hourglass settle, someone comes and shakes it,
    Just when the flower opens and starts to grow, a bug comes over to destroy it,
    Just when the battle is won, a bullet comes over to mar it,
    Just when you think all your problems are over, someone causes some more.

    Like the sea, life cannot be tamed,
    You grab it by the horns.
    You buck and twist, turn and flip, but like the night,
    It can not be conquered.
    You reach and you try,
    You look to the sky,
    You think you are the victor.
    But at the last second,
    A twist in time, and everything falls apart.
    Life cannot be tamed, life cannot be conquered,
    There is always someone to humble you, to pull you down, just in your moment of triumph.

    I sit there and cry,
    For memories,
    For old times' sake,
    For pleasure.
    What of daisies, and marigolds, and the beautiful fluttering butterfly?
    What of love, of joy, of innocence,
    to tread where others have shied.
    Will, you be brave, my sweet, my darling
    To hold close what the men have lost
    Of love, of joy, of innocence.
    Will, you venture where others have dreamed,
    To the fields of flowers, of lush green meadows, of blue skies yonder...

    Or will you shy away, reveling in the death and power that others have made,
    Standing in its shadow?
    Will you allow it to manipulate you, twisting yourself into a shell of its former inhabitant?
    O, my darling, my love, my sweet
    Remember me always,
    Forever and a day.