The Future Is Gonna Be Great

Ello! While our lives are rather chaotic right now with the move and various other happenings, one still has to find time for relative sanity. I've been getting into a groove as a writer lately and look forward to moving into the Overhouse Plainfield, as I think it will be a great change at the right time. I feel we'll really start to hit our stride as a band and can't wait to have a whole slew of new, show ready Overman tunes by August. Full album in time for the holidays?

Matt and I have been kicking around this chorus for a year or so, and we both really like the proclamation "the future is going to be great." So absolute. I didn't mean for it to be a death song, but that's where it went; these things have a mind of their own.

I think I might add a bridge.

The Future Is Gonna Be Great

It was two years before 2005
Because my old man was still alive
We went to a Bob Dylan concert one night
He sang "Don't Think Twice, Its All Right"

Pa was the one to spot the lights
High above us in the neon sky
Burning bright before they die
Colors crocheted with moonlight in his eyes

The future is gonna be great

Daniel broke my little foot
In a football game, on an ugly root
I cried and cried, he carried me inside
Brothers stick together, brother stay alive

So I learned to play his old guitar
It helped me heal, he taught me life is art
My eyes were wide so I could see
Daniel I know you were so proud of me

The future is gonna be great

Springtime comes and skeptics speak
To an auditorium full of science geeks
My best friend takes his mother there
To show her how he feels because he knows she cares

But is scared to think this could be true
Probably less for her, more for me and you
Where do we go when we die
She wanted to ask, but we ran out of time

The future is gonna be great

Now its five years past what it outta be
And I'm getting slowly older like an antique dream
I wanna sing a thousand songs
In to your ear, but you are gone

And on and on, and on and on
We all get born where do we all belong
I dream to see your face again
In a clear blue sky or blowin' in the wind

The future is gonna be great