Single $1
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #620
Peak in subgenre #73
Author
Alan Kim Cochran/Alan Kim Cochran
Rights
2008
Uploaded
May 02, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.8 MB • 128 kbps • 5:17
Story behind the song
With the beauty of youth, high hopes, and a certain expectation of achievement and entitlement, we ride from the castle gates – as valiant knights in burnished armor; lance in hand, the oriflamme of future great deeds raised on high. But, no sooner do we enter the field of tourney, than our armor tarnishes, our faithful charger begins to slow and stumble, and the crimson banner atop our dipping lance fades into a dull travesty of it’s original majestic hues.
And, soon enough, the faltering tale is told, having been…
“…full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
- Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, upon the death of his wife.
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
Round and Round
by Alan Kim Cochran
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Life’s but a walking shadow
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
Sunrise after sunrise, you know where you’ve been?
Wait for tomorrow, and do it again
As we ride the charger, meant to slow down
With banners of crimson, fading to brown
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
A generation, comes and goes
When will ours end? No one knows
And all think we, have the cure
But how to use it? No one’s sure
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
One step forward, one step behind
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
One step forward, one step behind
Sunrise after sunrise, you know where you’ve been?
Wait for tomorrow, and do it again
As we ride the charger, meant to slow down
With banners of crimson, fading to brown
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
One step forward, one step behind
And this world goes ‘round and ‘round
One step forward, one step behind
Ever rising, and standing tall
Scale the mountain, before the fall
And we surge onward, to touch the sky
But who'll remember, when we die?
And this world goes round and round
And this world goes round and round
And this world goes round and round
One step forward, one step behind
And this world goes round and round
One step forward, one step behind
Sunrise after sunrise, you know where you've been?
Wait for tomorrow, and do it again
As we ride the charger, meant to slow down
With banners of crimson, fading to brown
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace, from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death
Out, out, brief candle
Like's but a walking shadow
A poor player, who struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing
And this world goes round and round
And this world goes round and round
And this world goes round and round
One step forward, one step behind
And this world goes round and round
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
One step forward, one step behind
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