A song with a different perspective

I've written songs from many different points of view but never from that of a young man who can see the future! I have far too many songs already - which is why I'm working on two albums at once - so I doubt you'll be hearing this any time soon, even though it was one of those rare times when the lyric and music were born simultaneously. If it refuses to be kept waiting it just might push another song off one of the discs - we'll have to wait and see. Something this young man didn't have to do...

 

ANOTHER YOU, ANOTHER ME

 

You and I will meet

On a random street

Thirty years from now

You’ll be married

Tired and harried

Fresh from your latest row

 

We’ll wish that we

Were both still free

We’ll talk of vanished years

I’ll talk of lies

And watch your eyes

Fill with ancient tears

 

The future is waiting

But you won’t like what you see

Another you

Another me

 

I’ll look at you

And see right through

The winter coat you wear

To the body I knew

When we were twenty-two

Naked without a care

 

You’ll say it’s strange

I don’t seem to change

I’ll say the same about you

You’ll say that I

Still know how to lie

I’ll say it’s just not true

 

The future is waiting

But you won’t like what you see

Another you

Another me

 

Remember this

There’ll be a kiss

Truth concealed in a touch

We’ll walk away

Forever that day

More would only hurt too much

 

© 2011 Dave Tutin / openDmusic

Comments

[Jeff Shattuck]

A great lyric. My favorite part is:

"You’ll say it’s strange

I don’t seem to change

I’ll say the same about you

You’ll say that I

Still know how to lie

I’ll say it’s just not true"

Can't wait to hear the music.

[Dave]

I'm hoping you can look forward to a flood of music pretty soon!

I think my "acoustic" album will be done this year. The "band" album may be early next.

I have finished songs already and am very tempted to post them. But I am forcing myself to wait until the album is ready.

[Malachy Walsh]

The nostalgia of this is beautiful. It's interesting that the poem suggests how hard beaten we can be by the future. I wonder if there's another poem lurking from the pov of the person being greeted in the street - the "you."

[Dave]

Ah there's always other things lurking!

Obviously Santa Fe has been kind to me creatively. My next album (mainly acoustic) will be a 2-CD set with 17 songs. The next (full band) has 13. And I still have 23 songs yet to be properly recorded!

Right now I'm focusing on other things 'cos I need more songs like I need another birthday!