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here’s my take on Jon Foreman’s (of Switchfoot fame) songwriting contest thing from twitter. Explanation/background of the song below…enjoy.
Tomorrow’s Song
Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
Words: John Underdown
V1- Got a burr ‘neath my saddle, got a rock in my shoe.
Can’t wait to leave this town for where skies are blue.
I’ve been waiting so long to grow up tall,
But these walls around my life refuse to fall..
Chorus- Tomorrow! I’ll give it one more day.
Before I collapse and fade away.
Tomorrow! Can’t quit too soon.
One of these days I’m gonna reach the moon…tomorrow.
V2-Got a fire in my drawers, got ice down my back.
But once I start running I have an asthma attack.
It’s like waiting in line for customer service,
Been pretty patient, don’t think I deserve this…
(Chorus)
Bridge-Haste is the tune of our fallen race,
It hurries people on at a sick’ning pace.
So don’t be too hasty in throwing Now behind,
Life is really lived in the daily grind…till—Chorus
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With the concept of a “Tomorrow’s Song”, I figured the other writers would go for some hopeful longing for “tomorrow,” which is fine, but i revel in being different. So I thought of where I’m at now: a young man, fresh out of college eager to start a career in music and writing and currently going nowhere but the Wendy’s down the road. It’s very frustrating for me and it’s easy to long for “tomorrow” when everything will change.
So that’s where this song began, i decided to treat it sort of tongue-in-cheek and turn it around to note that i’ve already done alot with my past and could still do more in the present. Then I looked at Ecclesiastes 12:1-8, which advises against wishing away life and “growing up too soon.” With that I reworked the bridge and made it fit in with that theme. Well, that’s that. Let’s hope it’s a winner…
WikiLeaks has been causing controversy over the past few months thanks to its belief that people should know all the dirty secrets of the government reguardless of worldwide ramifications…including World War 3. This post isn’t necessarily to discuss whether or not what they’re doing is right, but whether or not what they’re doing is fishy.
I have a conspiracy. It began a couple weeks ago when the tsunami hit Japan and the nuclear reactors started shutting down. One day I got on twitter and on the home page where they feature “top tweets” and saw one from WikiLeaks claiming that they had a document showcasing that the guy in charge of one of the plants fibbed on a report or something like that. It struck me as ironic. Now they bring that out? They just happened to have that file handy?
Call me crazy (i won’t be offended), but I think WikiLeaks is trying to take over the world. They’re causing all these wars in the Middle East, they’re upsetting the nations, they’re raising gas prices, they’re killing narwhals! And why are they doing this? To break every culture down so they can rise to power and declare themselves kings! or something. We’re just putty in their hands, believing every word they print. They’ll probably shut down this blog after I post this! In fact, i bet they’re the ones who’ve been hacking into WordPress lately. They know I’m on to them and they’re striking quick and hard to shut me up. But ha! my blog is puny and no one reads it! So they can’t find me!
What’s the point? Here’s the point: there is no point. I guess the moral of today’s post is don’t believe every word you hear or read, because they’re probably lying to you in some elaborate scheme to take over the world…i bet it’s what they do every night.
