Story Behind The Song
Regrets about lost times, impatience about times not arriving, frustrated efforts, and the creeping sensation of the rushing passage of mortality, plus an acoustic guitar and a morning to myself at home. Bang. FuturePast.
Added the Pink Floyd jam section at the end when I took the song to the Listeners practice session.
Song Description
Meditation on change, the struggle to live in the here and now, to move on from the past while learning from it and honoring it, and the nature of time's slow encirclement and enstranglement of life.
| Song Length |
3:51 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Rock - Psychedelic |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Restless, Composed |
Subject |
Future, History, Past |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Oh Future, I wish you here today.
I'm tired of waiting for that day.
Oh History, I wish you were here today.
I wish that you'd never gone away.
Oh vengeance, I wish that I could take.
To use your name I hesitate.
Oh violence, sometimes I want to perpetrate.
I'll never get through the gate that way, for sure.
Behold the Serpent with a human face.
And that face it is a skull.
It wraps itself around your waist,
Until the memory's full.
Solution, a question to nagivate.
That burning answer comes too late for some.
Alternative way, I wish that you still remained for me today.
Behold the Serpent with a flaming crown.
And its eyes are looking down.
Its eyes are looking down at me.
I'm sinking