Saturday, April 5, 2008

Whatever Happened to You?


Here are the lyrics to a song I wrote for a project that somehow got put on hold. Life's interruptions seem to have reared their ugly heads again. I think its a good example of my efforts to put myself inside another character. Perhaps you know people and think to yourselves what the hell ever happened to them?





She cast her lot with fate and she was let down
Hard to believe such luck for the class clown
But life is all promise when you’re young
Promises now broken in the gray November sun.

She went to college but it wasn’t her thing
She wanted to see the world, the glory it would bring
The great works of literature fell on her deaf eyes
Her heart was broken before she tried.

Fade away…fade away…fade away to blue…

He worked in shipping, she slept in the secretarial pool
He caught her fancy with the silly thing’s he’d do
They had a brief sad torrid love affair
And in the end she didn’t repent, she didn’t even care
She believed in angels, they kept her safe at night
She worked hard to achieve what she knew wasn’t right
Her friends all had babies and husbands by the score
Seems she was cursed with always wanting more

Fade away…fade away…fade away to blue…


Whatever happened,whatever happened,whatever happened to you?

Time he is a hustler, he tricks us with his grace
He leaves us on the sidewalk, watching the race
In still procession we see what we want to see
Isn’t that the way it always is, the way it’s meant to be.

Her time is docked by the inertia of her lies
She never found the space to cut them down to size
And now in her hands sands run down like rain
But still she finds pleasure in the mists of her pain

Fade away…fade away…fade away to blue…


Whatever happened,whatever happened,whatever happened to you?


Whatever Happened to You?
Words and music by William Bates


 

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