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Richard was a stout-hearted man, he’d been through the bulk of his life He no longer spoke to most of his folks and was abandoned by his wife Rolling down the road one night alone, he came upon a terrible sight An older woman lay bleeding in the road and her screams about filled the night She said: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past Everything upon which you base your faith is made of vapour and it won’t last It’s only everything in our shared reality that keeps our souls held fast So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past Richard woke the next morning and spoke, he said, there’s something I feel I must do He called up all of his natural born kids and all his money from the bank he withdrew He changed his mind about everything he’d ever felt about what’s bad and good He fixed a loud-speaker to the roof of his car and he sang to everyone he could He sang: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past Get your sense of time from the ancient Hawaiians, your sense of self from the hydrogen blast You’ll be what came before, you were what is to come, he bellowed out to everyone he passed So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past Richard got arrested in Laredo, he was causing too much mischief for the sisters He spent an evening in the clink and then went home and turned to drinking – gave his all, yes, he was a double-fister The issue was the kind of past he had behind him, most of what he’d spent were wasted days The history he faced was an ocean made of empty and a destiny you wouldn’t want to save Still, I say: Look backwards on your future and look forward to your past Letras de cancionesIf you haven’t gone and made a mess of yourself you just might end up with the last laugh Every little dot of presence and thought for another will give your life class So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past This particular assemblage of molecules and memories some day soon may just soon run out of gas So, look backwards on your future and look forward to your past From Letras Mania