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Someday I'm Gonna Be Here

from Camped Out in the Big Bang by Richard Haxton

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So I'm flying like a tourist through the land of the dead
Got my automatic pilot working in my head
Propeller is spinning on the top of my cap
From my steady wind of empty words all over the map

They tell me I can park my wisdom on the head of a pin
Got to find myself a saint to analyze my sin
I finally got down to my very last friend
Been selling em out. Been trading em in

Been begging to borrow. Been losing to win
I don't know where I been. I'm going there again
I sum up the situation with just one look
I gotta open my mind before closing the book

I say - Whoa I got to do this thing
Find out what I need to know
Get back up, get back in the ring
Let the conflict show me where I need to go

I got to learn how to dance. Rope-a-dope with my fear
Quit talking about love til I learn how to hear
Start bringing the far away a little more near
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna be here

So I'm climbing to the top of the Gibraltar rock
Where there's nothing to change, where you can stop the clock
It's starting to rain. I'm starting to slip
I cannot find my place 'til I lose my grip

I find myself swimming in the corporate sea
Where love's made the way it's supposed to be
The truth floats by in a styrofoam cup
I'm too preoccupied to even pick it up

I cannot see the vision. Cannot hear the call
My mirror's backing off. I see me getting small
Maybe the smaller I get, the more that I'll know
If I can break out of jail maybe I can pass go

I say - Whoa I got to do this thing
There's got to be a handle on the flow
Long as I got me a song to sing
I won't get overwhelmed by the undertow

I got to learn how to dance. Rope-a-dope with my fear
Quit talking about love til I learn how to hear
Start bringing my far away a little more near
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna be here

You know I may be right. I may be wrong
I may not know who's singing this song,
Got to learn how to worship, that's easy to see
So love or money, what's it gonna be?

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from Camped Out in the Big Bang, released June 1, 2014

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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