I’m Doomed! (1064)

Intro
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed
I’m self-consumed
I’m doomed.

Verse
My past is consuming me
My future is history
I really need to return
To normality eventually.
Find a reality
Within the present
To make history
Irrelevant, but worthy
The past does unnerve me
Words haunt me
Premonitions taunt me
It was what I wrote
These words I can’t unquote
But were they true, really?

Chorus
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed.

Verse
Don’t know when to end
Or where to begin
I’m too self-consumed
There ain’t enough room within
For me or anybody else
Outside – what I want will never be
Because the future is haunted
By my history.

Chorus
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed.

Verse
I want perfection
But I’m not (perfect)
I constantly try
But never succeed
Time is short
I want to achieve
What can’t be bought
But it can be believed.

Chorus
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed.

Verse
My future is history
My history’s the future
Everything is present
But I’m not here
Where I could be
Missing what I missed
I’m lost in the future
‘Coz I’m wrapped in the past.

Chorus
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed.

Verse
I’m a man on a mission
With a vision, with a task
A decision, a collision
With my thoughts from the past
I gather and collect
But in retrospect
Gotta keep a perspective
And not be neglective
To the present, in essence
Be true – normal tasks I’ve gotta do
Still – can’t let them over-shadow
My life as a husband
With a wife
But gotta make my past
Prosper my future life.

Chorus
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed
I’m doomed! I’m doomed!
I’m self-consumed.

But some of the things I do, I’ve gotta do
But in time lock the gloom away in a room
So the brighter side can shine, in time
And hopefully before long, it’ll happen soon.

© 2025 – Colin E. Pyle