Chris Albery-Jones - Lifetime Long Gone Lyrics

You know the old lady who shuffles her shoes
She could tell you a story or two
Things you wouldn't believe if you knew
From a lifetime long gone

She grew up in an old whiskey bar
Told a girl like her wouldn't go far
Hitched her skirt, hitched a ride the first car
In a lifetime long gone

She was drawn to the lights like a bug
Spent the long nights with actors and thugs
Took her fair share of drink, sex & drugs
In a lifetime long gone

Time went on and the offers they came
Each one made more extravagant claims
To secure them the rights to her name
For a lifetime long gone

So she hit the heights and flew
With the brightness of the young and new
And the lights that write her name
Pale beside her incandescent flame
Their thirst for her it grew
'Til there was no wrong that she could do
And as long as she could burn
They would covet her

But the reel rolls continuously
Cue one younger and fresher than she
And her face fell from all memory
To a lifetime long gone

Now all that's left of that girl is her eyes
Full of sadness and beauty and lies
They remember the lows and the highs
Of a lifetime long gone