How To Tell The Future (Blue Edition) Lyrics

I wonder, mama, when they say

A photograph can take your soul away

And I take pictures of everything

Cut my life into little squares

As I mix them up

I'm made aware

That there's a pattern

That's emerging

Oh mama, can't you see

I know things that are yet to be

All it takes is a little arranging

Oh mama, don't you get my drift

Fortune-telling is a lonely gift

Papa always said he could hear

The Black Machine

I know that you said you're lost

And you count the greys

And you count the cost

Of the world's constant turning

Oh mama, don't you turn away

The things I've seen

Like a dream

Are hard to say

I'll tell you as they fade away

For what we've done

The days to come

Won't be like yesterday

It's like I've seen the road right around the bend

And I've read this book

Back from the end.

I've put the love before the affection

As I put my finger down on the page

I feel my anger and I show my age

'Cause we can only read in one direction

Take a trip through the looking-glass

Back-to-front and ahead is past

Come around to this way of thinking

Oh mama don't you hear me say

The flood is coming and we'll wash away

I know 'cause it won't stop raining

Take a step out of history

And I look at you

And you'll look at me

Who knew life could be so degrading

Oh mama, don't you turn away

The things I've seen

Like a dream

Are hard to say

I'll tell you as they fade away

For what we've done

The days to come

Won't be like yesterday