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Just the Past Again

Written by Robbie Smith

“Stop and listen, hear the voices”
Spoke the seeer who held the crystal ball
Though the future is filled with chances and with choices
It need not remain a mystery to us all

Asking, What’s to be the future?
What will the fates ordain?
Tell me, what’s to be my future?
Maybe just the past again

There’s a little child waiting to be tended
And a priest who seeks the grace of god
And a loner who wants to be befriended
On a path where most of us have trod

There’s a scavenger, scrounging for survival
And a wise man offering advise
A competitor outdistancing a rival
A skater on thin ice

Asking, What’s to be the future?
Will it bring pleasure or pain?
Tell me, what’s to be my future?
Maybe just the past again

There’s an outcast waiting for acceptance
And a criminal, looking for a crime
And a judge about to pass his sentence
A prisoner doing time

Asking, What’s to be my future?
Will it bring freedom or chains?
What’s to be my future?
Maybe just the past again

There’s an army crossing foreign borders
Civilians joining in the fray
A solider stands waiting for his orders
A women somewhere kneels to pray

Asking, What’s to be the future?
With all its losses and gains
Close the curtain on the future
Lest it be the past again
Lest it be the past again

Lest it be the past – again