Linger in the Past

Well I can't turn back the clock
Though now I wish I could
Well it hurts to see what I once had
And things I've never known

No turning back from my future
And no running from my fate
I now see what has been lost
And now it's just too late

And I, I threw it all away
Had it right there in my hands

It hurts me when I reminisce
But I do it more and more
Thoughts of the past just linger on
More lucid than before

The present day, just so passé
Like a monkey on my back
Motion stops and progress halts
When I linger in the past