I Plan, God Laughs

It's another door slammed and bolted

It's one more window locked

You were on your way back home and

Now you're not

With my fingers I form a steeple

In such a way when I open my hands

There's no one home

Then I call your number

Just to hear your message on the phone

Maybe next month

Maybe next year

Oh my oh my it's been a long long time

I plan. God laughs

Here's another faded photo

In the year before things changed

I took hard that betrayal

Of an old friend, now estranged

How could I be so mistaken

Why couldn't I see in all that time

I'd been walking a wire?

Or that I'd be one of many who

Got torched in his scorched-earth fire

I thought by now

He'd come around

All would be forgiven 'cos

Love would break us down

I planned. God laughed

I planned. God laughed

The day's as restless as a land-locked sailor

Anxious to move on from old history

His baggage is ready and stacked

Against the wall with a yellowing map

And he's dreaming of a whispering sea

You'll dig a hole to China

Said my younger days

And die before you get old

Go out in a glorious blaze

I won't be aloof like my father

Rest his soul, or like my mother

Worried about too many things

Pull myself up by my boot-straps

Be an optimistic dancer in the rain

Maybe next week,

Sometime this year

These things don't happen over night

God plans. I laugh

God plans. I laugh

God plans. I laugh

God plans. I laugh