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Soon But Not Today Lyrics by Pattern-Seeking Animals

Prehensile Tales

2020

No one knows where the old man goes
No one seems to care
But we pretend and send him on his way
Carried far as the four winds blow
Clouds above and the waves below
He'll be back again but not today
Soon but not today
Soon but not today OK
A drink or two before I quit
A few hits off this cigarette
Tomorrow I'll stop
A bullet barely dodged
The tests came back, I'm still alive
I beat bad choices and survived
Before the final curtain dropped
Maybe I should contemplate
The things in life that I regret
I believe that Heaven waits
But I don't want to see it yet
My checkered past will follow me
Forever like a face tattoo
I wish I'd known back then before
My best years slipped away
Not unexpected lightning struck
A second time I swear
Another sign, another scare
A mounting cosmic debt to pay
Maybe I should contemplate
The things in life that I regret
I believe that Heaven waits
But I don't want to see it yet
Here we made our home
Here we'd always been
But then she said
We don't belong together
And I should let her go
Because her heart's already gone
And it was time that we moved on
Alone here at the end
It seems that once again we're strangers
Once upon a time we had something
But something changed
Once upon a time we had something
Now everything's strange
If these four walls could speak
The tales of us they'd tell
Of boundless days
And love ablaze in splendor
But now the flame's grown cold
I drag my suitcase cross the floor
Turn out the lights and lock the door
Alone here at the end
It seems that once again we're strangers
All together we are waging different wars
What's it for out the door
There is nothing left for you to know so it's up we go
Nothing's more than it was ever meant to be
Meant to be, few will see
There's a darkness shining out of me, shining out of me
No one knows where the old man goes
No one seems to care
But we pretend and send him on his way
Carried far as the four winds blow
Clouds above and the waves below
He'll be back again but not today
Soon but not today
All together we are waging different wars
What's it for out the door
There is nothing left for you to know so it's up we go
Nothing's more than it was ever meant to be
Meant to be, few will see
There's a darkness shining out of me, shining out of me
Once upon a time we had something
But something changed
Once upon a time we had something
Something
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Pattern-Seeking Animals

Pattern-Seeking Animals

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