well i wish every day was a friday night with a long weekend straight ahead and we all lived in shining castles and there was no such word as dead but reality's harsh and we're all going to die no one's come back lately to tell us otherwise so grin and bear it and enjoy what you can cause too many castles are built out of sand and there's never enough to go around anyway i'm far and away you spend so many nights wishing on a star til a cold wind reminds you that you're just right where you are you try to avoid it, focus on what's real but when the dollar is king, it's hard not to kneel and we all live life wanting more and more everyone's a player and everyone keeps score and television with one-way vision shows you all the things that you haven't got i'm far and away you can't sound the retreat when it's out in the street it's all around you, it's everywhere you go