A song I wrote this morning. The blower motor in our main air unit has failed and we’ve been without heat for two days waiting on the replacement motor to be delivered and installed. During the day, and to keep warm, I’ve been going outside to lie in the grass in the sunshine. (It is actually much warmer outside than inside the house at this point, especially around daybreak).
I did that again after lunch just now and these song lyrics came to me as I was soaking up the sunshine. Actually I’ve been thinking lately on events in America and in the world and have sort of reached my bellyful of all the recent bullshit. So yeah, the cold and the sun sparked the lyrics, but they’ve been weighing on my mind for a while now anyhow.
After I went inside and wrote them down, I put them aside for a bit and had a cup of coffee. Then I went back to the lyrics and did some editing and a bit of finagling to develop a final draft.
It’s sort of a hippie song, I’m the first to admit it, but nevertheless I like it.
A lot. I mean it too. Both for myself and this nation, and even for the world.
A FAR BETTER LAND
Gonna hop me a train to somewhere
Somewhere I’ve never yet been
A place that’s full of better ways
A place I can start again
Gonna fly me a plane to Shangri-La
A land that will never end
With star-bright nights and golden days
Where the dawn of my heart begins
Gonna sail me a ship to Paradise
Find me the coast of the moon
Where the mountains are high, and
The water is wide, and the grass
Is as deep as the sky
Come with me People
Let’s go somewhere else
Leave all your troubles and cares
Just think of the World
We could make for ourselves
If only we ever would dare
Gonna build me a starship
Gonna build her real soon
Rig her with sails made of light
Gonna crew her at sunrise, launch her at noon
God! What a beautiful sight!
Come with me People
There are new worlds to roam
Gonna leave all our hatreds and wares
There’s a place that is waiting
We could build a New Home
If only we ever would dare
Gonna fill up my heart-chest
Gonna pack up my soul
Gonna leave just as soon as I can
Come with me People
Come young and old
Gonna look for a far better land
Yeah…
Gonna go to a far better land
Yeah,
A new, and a far better land…
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