I Plan, God Laughs

It's another door slammed and bolted It's one more window locked You were on your way back home and Now you're not With my fingers I form a steeple In such a way when I open my hands There's no one home Then I call your number Just to hear your message on the phone Maybe next month Maybe next year Oh my oh my it's been a long long time I plan. God laughs Here's another faded photo In the year before things changed I took hard that betrayal Of an old friend, now estranged How could I be so mistaken Why couldn't I see in all that time I'd been walking a wire? Or that I'd be one of many who Got torched in his scorched-earth fire I thought by now He'd come around All would be forgiven 'cos Love would break us down I planned. God laughed I planned. God laughed The day's as restless as a land-locked sailor Anxious to move on from old history His baggage is ready and stacked Against the wall with a yellowing map And he's dreaming of a whispering sea You'll dig a hole to China Said my younger days And die before you get old Go out in a glorious blaze I won't be aloof like my father Rest his soul, or like my mother Worried about too many things Pull myself up by my boot-straps Be an optimistic dancer in the rain Maybe next week, Sometime this year These things don't happen over night God plans. I laugh God plans. I laugh God plans. I laugh God plans. I laugh