Aficionado - Permanent lyrics

When I was just a kid I wished that I could be permanent And my bones would shake At the thought of change Afraid to shut my eyes Awake with the lights on I wished everything could remain In one place And I'm not sure if other kids ever did the same I would stare into the mirror at my face And at the risk of sounding vain I'd imagine what I'd look like with hair turned grey With no brighter days With wrinkled skin Eyes sunken in And I remember hearing fables about a fountain to make us ageless A phony sense of security and confidence We are not permanent We are not permanent And for a while I didn't give a sh** And I wasn't scared of anything Yeah, being naive Sure had its benefits Realities that I couldn't deal with I did my best to keep separate Anything but actual acknowledgement We are not permanent We are not permanent We are not permanent We are not permanent I remember hearing fables about a fountain to make us ageless We are not permanent A phony sense of security and confidence We are not permanent Like the false promise of God and a life that never ends We are not permanent Anything but accepting what we're told by common sense We are not permanent