I really love this beat. It's all elevator music-ragtime-futuristic-laid-back-unconventional. The lyrics are all right. This song is more personal than most, and has a lot of Christian themes in it. JUST SO YOU KNOW.
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Story behind the song
This song is a rhyming transcription of basically how I feel about life. I also wrote it kind of to be a theme for a graphic novel that I am gradually making about an alien who is trying to rescue somebody (SPOILERS!).
Lyrics
Thoughts of future
As the clouds start rolling in like vultures circling a kill
And every day becomes a struggle against my own will
I’m seeing what I thought unthinkable become the commonplace
And everything I thought was definite blow up in my face
It’s daunting not perceiving if your principles are slipping
In my world I am a constant, and incapable of dipping
I can’t tell if it’s untrue, but as well as I know how
I’m gonna stay strong through every challenge that stands before me now.
When other folks are praying for a miracle to intervene
I’m praying for the strength to withstand the battle scene
And when other folks are praying for divine revelation
I’m praying for wisdom to understand the situation
And when other folks ask God for their desires on a silver platter
I’m praying for the contentment to realize it doesn’t matter
it seems like overkill to shape the universe to my designs
When I could allow my own selfish wants to be redefined
I know where I’m coming from
I’m still not too sure about where I’m going
I’ll close my eyes and run
And trust that it turns out without my knowing
Nothing can undo your plan
I’ll follow the path as best I know how to
And when I reach the finish line
I know that I’ll be more than happy I found you
As I leave behind my childhood to embrace maturity
I’m trying to understand the kind of man I’m trying to be
I don’t want to be the kind of man who gives up and quits
Or the kind of guy who steps on folks to get where he gets
I want to be there for the ones I love when they come under fire
And let love be love, and not a self-seeking desire
I want to give without taking, and live without shaking
When the ground underneath me feels as if it’s quaking.
I can’t take life to serious, I keep things simplified
But I don’t want to be the kind of guy who lets everything slide
Finding happy mediums between extremes is hard to achieve
And it’s even harder to understand how I’m being perceived.
And I’m hoping I can learn not to worry about perceptions
And live in such a way that I require no corrections
I will not forget I live to serve, and my life isn’t mine
I will not fall to my own designs