Here’s a lyric to a song I’ve not yet recorded. The first verse came to me in a waking dream, which is unusual for me, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I purloined it subconciously from another song!
The Things I Believe (or “I Can See The Future Coming”)
I can see the future coming
From the corner of my eye
It is mysterious and elusive
Like the stars up in the sky
I can see the path before me
Like the shepherd leading sheep
I know we can get out of here
I’ve just got to believe
CHORUS
I believe we will overcome
The obstacles in our way
I believe what doesn’t kill us
Makes us stronger everyday
I believe that everything that happens
Is a lesson to be learnt
You don’t put your hand in the fire
Knowing it is going to get burnt
I can see the future coming
Like an uninvited guest
A portent of things to come
Another question in the test
I can see the time unravelling
Like the springs inside a watch
Tightly coiled, relentless
A vision of what we could have lost
CHORUS
I believe we will overcome
The obstacles in our way
I believe what doesn’t kill us
Makes us stronger everyday
I believe that everything that happens
Is a lesson to be learnt
You don’t put your hand in the fire
Knowing it is going to get burnt
God pays debts without money
On that I can depend
What comes around goes around
Karma’s going to get you in the end
Justice might be stupid
Justice sometimes might be blind
But I believe that you’ll get what you deserve
It will just take a little time
CHORUS
I believe we will overcome
The obstacles in our way
I believe what doesn’t kill us
Makes us stronger everyday
I believe that everything that happens
Is a lesson to be learnt
You don’t put your hand in the fire
Knowing it is going to get burnt
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A good song, Dazza, and in the fine tradition of personal credo songs, though there is a danger that this bit … “Justice might be stupid
Justice sometimes might be blind
But I believe that you’ll get what you deserve
It will just take a little time”
might conflate justice with vengeance – which is not usually a good idea. How ya doin’? Would you say your experience of life has been influenced by those strange years at Intelfax? On a scale of 10 (1 being not at all; 10 being ruinously so)…