Song Description
To suit projects with political content (dramas, documentaries, others) featuring one or more politician
who is/are/was/were allegedly/evidentially not squeaky clean.
The lyrics are from the point of view of that person/those persons: a lament.
| Song Length |
4:37 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Unique - Soundtracks |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed |
Subject |
Politician, Politics |
| Similar Artists |
Neil Young |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
GOOD INTENTIONS
Words and Music by Laurence Conway
© (all rights reserved) Laurence Conway, 2017
Genre: Country-Folk
Tempo: BPM 80
[3 bars of Intro: harmonica + backing]
Verse 1:
We don't get into this for popularity
If we ever earn it, it's fleeting
Pleasing people all the time is just not possible
It's a high wire act, this demographics
Pre-chorus 1:
We politicians aren't liked
Always told our track record's bad
That's despite every effort we make
It's small wonder our job lacks joy
Chorus:
All our GOOD INTENTIONS fall on stony ground
with the voters who close their ears
What use GOOD INTENTIONS if distrust and doubt
block our way to allay their fears?
GOOD INTENTIONS count for nothing
Verse 2:
Yet we come back for more: for re-election
Pretty clear we're gluttons for punishment
If we're voted in again, we are exultant
But that feeling wears off very quickly
Pre-chorus 2:
We fake a confident front
when we bat tricky questions back
There's, of course, party in-fighting too
Partly why folk switch off - that's true
Repeat Chorus
Pre-chorus 3 (no 3rd verse):
Political Life's quite a choice
Daily we ponder that
Still, we hope that we improve things
Surely THAT'S what we're in this for
Repeat Chorus [with vocals then close with harmonica solo over Chorus chords]