I don't live in a time

Where the truth prevails

Things just seem to happen

On an escalating scale

They play you for a fool

To weaken your resolve

Drowning you in details

To make you miss the whole.

Sunbeams and forget-me-nots

Beads of amber, parking lots

From your view you see a lot

What you really see

Forest for the trees.

I don't live in a world

Big on clarity

The way it's coming at us

So relentlessly

Where does one thing end

And the next one start

And where to begin

To keep it all apart.

Sunbeams and forget-me-nots

Keys are in the flowerpot

A rider brings his horse to trot

All is lost on me

Forest for the trees.

Sunbeams and forget-me-nots

Awoken by a rifle shot

From your view you see a lot

But never the whole piece

Forest for the trees.

We're running out of movie-plots

Your stomach's tied into a knot

Crackles as the needle drops

On a somber melody

A heartbreak elegy

Unsurprisingly

Called 'forest for the trees'.