You hope that everything is gonna be good,
Everything is gonna be right
The future’s gonna be shining, clear and bright.
But why, does nothing ever turn out that way,
It’s only ever dull and grey,
Until one day when everything will change
And now everything is glowing
Everything’s so beautiful.
You’ve got a special feeling growing,
And everybody loves you now.
Because everything is glowing
Everything’s so beautiful
But you know cracks will start a showing
In time.
Now you fly, soaring way up in the sky
And nobody can understand why
The running joke has turned himself around
There’s a god, pulling on all of the strings
But everyone knows that sure enough like all good things
You’ll come crashing to the ground.
And now everything is glowing
Everything’s so beautiful.
You’ve got a special feeling growing,
And everybody loves you now.
Because everything is glowing
Everything’s so beautiful
But you know cracks will start a showing
Tonight.
Now it’s all turned to shite again,
You can’t find a way to win the game for sure
It was almost overnight again,
You can’t have the nice things, like you had before
Cos when everything was glowing
It was all so beautiful.
But now that beauty is corroding,
The clown commands the ship of fools
But back when everything was glowing
And everything was beautiful
There could be no damn way of knowing
That you’re gonna burn in hell!
credits
from Tales From Foulbog (2023),
released November 3, 2023
Music and lyrics by Phil Holden with Andy Renshaw
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