Best Laid Plans Lyrics - Best Laid Plans - Junior Smalls And The Criminals

We started out with distant eyes 

The beginning of an era with no compromise 

We ruled so absolutely 

Cause we knew it was our time 

I look back so disappointed 

We were kings in our own minds 

Rulers of a crumbling empire 

As the walls came down 

Stone by stone 

We found ourselves now exposed and alone 

Left to face this world we could have owned 

I said the best laid plans 

Can sometimes go astray 

You know it happened to me 

And I think about it everyday 

Because it's been a long time and 

I feel like nothing's changed 

And no I don't know where I'm going 

I just wanna get on my way 

What started out as youthful aims 

Flowered and died and left as quick as it came 

Spent the next few years running in circles 

Just trying to recover 

What can never be the same 

So we beat on boats against the current 

Trying to defy 

The way that mistakes we made reduced our fate 

To a fleeting moment in time 

This ain't really a sad song 

Just a little somethin' to bring closure 

To a dream deferred 

That had passed, before I knew it was over 

And the distance grows every passing year 

And the memories get just a little less clear 

Oh, how these days collide 

Collide