Welcome to the real world

Fact is often much stranger Than fiction, no danger It's easy to ignore it Hide your head and don't look for it Ain't no way to run a universe Someone's holding the strings of the purse Got his finger...
I was a rich man, I was a thief I was a sailor, shipwrecked on a reef I was a coward, I was afraid I was couragious, man I was brave Until the oceans dry Until the day you die Until the stars fall out...
Parental blankets did me well Outside I could never tell Nothing could prepare me For what I found away from home So much beauty So much cruelty No one said it would be easy No one said it would be so...