Thursday, December 03, 2015

"Our Time"


I’ve heard it said that ghosts hang around because they have unfinished business. Maybe that’s why I can’t shake the past. It keeps haunting me because there is unfinished business between us. I’ve often thought I’d be willing to make any deal the devil had to offer if he’d take me back to the early 1980s. Of course that sort of wishful thinking comes with all the usual conditions: I’d have my youth back but have the knowledge I currently possess, other conditions would be the same as they were, and I’d have the ability to do things completely differently this time around. And no hidden Monkey Paw style disasters attached to these wishes.

Can I ever hope to correct the mistakes of the past? Where did my hope go?

Current listening: Prefab Sprout, Steve McQueen

Our Time

© 1992 Brian Hutzell

Call you from the road, say I’m gonna be late
Wanna hold you close, but that’ll have to wait
Till I see you
It won’t be long
That’s when I’ll sing this song:

This is our time
Our time now
We can use it anyhow
It’s our time, our time, yours and mine
Yours and mine

No one interrupting us
Someone always jumping up
Not now, not when I’m alone with you
They'll just have to learn
That it’s our time, our time now
It’s our time, our time, yours and mine
Our time, ours and we decide
How to make the best of it
Our time, our time, yours and mine
Yours and mine

There’s a limit to how many things we can do in a day
Easy to let distractions get in our way
Instead of wishing moments away, trying to make the minutes fly
Savor every second; we don’t get to order seconds

Call you every day we’re not together
Cause I wanna stay with you forever

Making it our time
We can use it anyhow
It’s our time, our time, yours and mine
Our time, ours and we decide
How to make the best of it
Our time, our time, yours and mine
Yours and mine
Yours and mine



Pages 50-51

from Bigsong II
Brian Hutzell

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