the unknown warriors - Lost in Translation Lyrics

I look back on my life
And I wonder what belonged to me
Was it something that I really had
Or was there something I could never see?
And I worry, when it's over, that there's nothing really left
No mark where I've been treading
No use of the things with which I've been blessed

Well, I used to make things happen
Now things just happen to me
Once there was a choice
A time that you never knew you'd be so free
And with the decades slipping by, you get to wonder why
You don't care you're invisible
As fortune's fickle eye just passes you by

So have I been a giver
Or have I been a taker like the rest?
Did I really love my children
Or was it just too easy paying for the best?
And all that time that's been wasted, reaching for stuff too far away
Lost in translation, so much that I wanted to say

And I'll tell you that I'm happy
It wouldn't be a lie
God loves little children, that's me till the day I die
And all that time that's been wasted, reaching for stuff too far away
Got lost in translation, so much that I wanted to say, so much that I wanted to say

I've been the tinker and the tailor
Been the beggarman too
Tried a hundred different stories, but never found the way to what was really true
And while I think there's still a chance to break another lance, another run for glory
I'll step up there and take the last dance

So if I was a taker, can I still be a giver, got time to do something 'fore I rest?
Got everything I need now, but still like to find out, give what I can for the best
Are there others who need me, what can I still be, to anyone?
And how long, how far, can I run?

And all that time that's been wasted, reaching for stuff too far away
Lost in translation, so much that I wanted to say
And all that time that's been wasted, reaching for stuff too far away
Lost in translation, so much that I wanted to say
And all that time that's been wasted, reaching for stuff too far away
Lost in translation, didn't matter what I had to say ..