Burden to Bear

There's a reason to be happy, baby
 There's a reason to be sad
 Oh there's a reason to throw it away
 I find it so hard to relate these days
 To anything or anyone at all
 Everything that matters
 Everything that ever will
 On a distant shoreline way across the western hills
 I can't seem to get there, you know it seems my life's been put on hold
 The time keeps slipping away
 They say you can fool yourself but not very long
 I think I've been fooling myself my whole life long
 Taken everything that mattered
 I watched it leave without a care
 Don't you know, don't you know that's the hardest burden to bear
 Look in the mirror I see the lines on my face
 Look in my eyes I can feel all the pain
 Of everything I've been ashamed of in the past
 There's enough regret there to last
 And I can't deny what I understand
 If you live your life like a one night stand
 You wind up alone and lost and afraid with nothing to say
 I guess it doesn't matter anyway
 They say you can fool yourself but not very long
 I think I've been fooling myself my whole life long
 Taken everything that mattered
 I watched it leave without a care
 Don't you know, don't you know, that's the hardest burden to bear
 The hardest burden to bear
 The hardest burden to bear