Good to Know

The story of my life

In a four minute slice of time

Possibly a piece of auto fiction

Coloring the story, my best addiction

Still, even as a kid

A little nomad with a strange bag of tricks

Too much self obsession and a mystical bent

Don't play well with others, hardly heaven-sent

And then a sound

Sent from who knows what kind of place

But it's all around

Sending me into outer space

It's good, it's good to know

That it's always ringing out

From before in the afterglow

Where I hear it singing out

Cut to present day

I'm getting pretty good at getting in my own way

Not my finest hour, I'm well and truly pissed

Might as well add it to the ever growing list

Of my many phases

I want to see the light through various hazes

And something pulls me back, oh, for heaven's sake

I get my act together, a total piece of cake

And then the sound

Filling the room inside my heart

Where love abounds

And the villains are torn apart

It's good, it's good to know

There's a fair few friends lookin' out

To say what's up, maybe just hello

And tell me whatever it's all about

It's good, it's good to know

That I still have reasons

Reasons enough, but even, even so

I am lost in this season

It's good, it's good to know

When that feeling comes through me

As I listen to the radio

It's the song that chooses me

It's good, it's good to know

That it's always ringing out

From before in the afterglow

Where I hear it singing out