When once there was a nothing 
The voices rang so true 
The knowledge that was lacking 
Cut innocence in two 

Everything seemed 
Too good to be right 
When I was 16 
I was too uptight 

Now disappointment's shadow 
Reveals a colder time 
A harder kind of living 
In disillusion 

How can it go 
The fear of the night 
Now I am grown 
I'm just too uptight 

A slow and noble breakdown 
Of personality 
Coreless, heartless, soulless 
No dignity 

My days are flown 
And I can't recall 
Feeling so alone 
Was I so uptight? 

Death creeps ever closer 
A darkness falls in me 
A scared fragmented loner 
Unholy 

A night with no end 
An echoing sea 
I'll think about me 
How I'm too uptight