Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Look Backward on You Future, Look Forward to Your Past, artist - Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Album song I Made a Place, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 14.11.2019
Record label: Domino, Drag City
Song language: English
Look Backward on You Future, Look Forward to Your Past |
Richard was a stout-hearted man, he’d been through the bulk of his life |
He no longer spoke to most of his folks and was abandoned by his wife |
Rolling down the road one night alone, he came upon a terrible sight |
An older woman lay bleeding in the road and her screams about filled the night |
She said: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |
Everything upon which you base your faith is made of vapour and it won’t last |
It’s only everything in our shared reality that keeps our souls held fast |
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |
Richard woke the next morning and spoke, he said, there’s something I feel I |
must do |
He called up all of his natural born kids and all his money from the bank he |
withdrew |
He changed his mind about everything he’d ever felt about what’s bad and good |
He fixed a loud-speaker to the roof of his car and he sang to everyone he could |
He sang: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |
Get your sense of time from the ancient Hawaiians, your sense of self from the |
hydrogen blast |
You’ll be what came before, you were what is to come, he bellowed out to |
everyone he passed |
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |
Richard got arrested in Laredo, he was causing too much mischief for the sisters |
He spent an evening in the clink and then went home and turned to drinking — |
gave his all, yes, he was a double-fister |
The issue was the kind of past he had behind him, most of what he’d spent were |
wasted days |
The history he faced was an ocean made of empty and a destiny you wouldn’t want |
to save |
Still, I say: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |
If you haven’t gone and made a mess of yourself you just might end up with the |
last laugh |
Every little dot of presence and thought for another will give your life class |
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |
This particular assemblage of molecules and memories some day soon may just |
soon run out of gas |
So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past |