Blues for Now Lyrics

Do you ever wonder

Why we give a thought

To past or to future

When all that we've got

Is present

And we're missing quite a lot

What could have been?

What should have been?

What might have been?

What will have been?

Oh no

There's really only what there is

And you don't get to

Go and take it back my friend

You said the wrong thing

Didn't say enough

You acted too funny

You acted too tough

Well being

A human being is rough

The conversation

That plays in your head

Won't go down like that

What will happen instead

Is you'll do

Just exactly what you did

To avoid it, you'd have to go off of the grid

Is it a sin

Or some human fault

We flee from a city

Then get turned into salt

Well I guess

I guess that's just our lot

Retracing steps

Already made

Or counting up money

Before we get paid

Just look

Look how far we've gone and strayed

Into a cycle

Of past and future-retrograde

We're running forward

We're looking back

Life's a game

And we play the odds

We call it random

Then blame the gods

When we know that correlation's not a cause

But living is blues

I've worked that out

Cause we've got to have something

To sing about

We've got to have something to sing or shout

While we're on this temporary roundabout

We're looking forward

We're running back

We're running forward

We're looking back