A folk-rock song about current uncertainty
hope
uncertainty
Story behind the song
The Janus Stone is a mysterious two-faced figure found on Boa Island in County Fermanagh. I felt that this enigmatic stone was talismanic of our uncertain times.
Lyrics
AmGFF2CCG x2
F CGF CGAm GAm (C last time)
Has the world come to an end
Or is it just another beginning?
Is it all beyond our ken
Or just the result of all our sinning
Soothsaying endtimers picking through the bones
Game playing social climbers getting in the zone
And standing all alone
There's the Janus stone
Politicians like to bend
The truth to match their aspirations
Democracy could end
By demagogic machinations
Bull headed white hooded fakers haunt the crowd
past wedded blue blooded takers shout aloud
Certainty has flown
There's the Janus stone
GGhalfbAmAmF CGF CG
F CEmhalfDmG
Pray to it wish on it to see beyond the veil
Sometimes there's no way to see
If futures bright for you and me
Qué Sera will surely be
The future of will prevail
Patriotic rhymes
Build confidence but cloud the vision
Interesting times
Make a guess with no precision
Chaos comes and order goes and so all things must change
Reason shuns what chaos shows and tries to rearrange
Into the in unknown
And there's the Janus stone.