Wasted dreams fall down every day
This face is wet with pain
Seems nothing is ever okay
There's nothing left to gain
Slowly tears fall, so filled with rage
Hatred trapped in this fragile cage
Slowly tears fall
Slowly tears fall
Feeling much older than my age
Wasted dreams fall down every day
Now nowhere left to go
No one cares what I have to say
How'd I become so low
This fragile soul about to break
Blackened heart does nothing but ache
This fragile soul
This fragile soul
Don't know how much more I can take
Wasted dreams fall down every day
There's nothing left to do
Life once Technicolor now gray
All my time spent so blue
Crushed hopes and dreams show in my tears
With them they bring all of my fears
crushed dreams and hopes
Crushed dreams and hopes
Wasted dreams showing in my tears
The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines.
Line 1 is the same in all three stanzas, although a variation of the form is not to repeat the same line
at the beginning of each stanza. In other words, the beginning line of each stanza can be different.
The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8.
The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:
Rhyme scheme: a/b/a/b/c/c/d,d refrain of first 4 words of line five /c
