I Planned God Laughs Demo by Terry Scott Taylor Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus 1]
Maybe next month
Maybe next year
Oh my, oh my, it’s been a long, long time
I plan. God laughs
I plan. God laughs
[Verse 2]
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?
[Chorus 2]
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
[Bridge]
The day is restless as a land-locked sailor
Anxious to move on from old history
Its baggage is ready and stacked
Against the wall with a yellowing map
And it’s dreaming of the whispering sea
[Verse 3]
“You’ll dig a hole to China”
Said my younger days
“And die before you get old
Go out in glory’s 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
[Chorus 3]
Maybe next week
Sometime this year
These things don’t happen overnight
God plans. I laugh
God plans. I laugh
God plans. I laugh
God plans. I laugh
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
[Chorus 1]
Maybe next month
Maybe next year
Oh my, oh my, it’s been a long, long time
I plan. God laughs
I plan. God laughs
[Verse 2]
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?
[Chorus 2]
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
[Bridge]
The day is restless as a land-locked sailor
Anxious to move on from old history
Its baggage is ready and stacked
Against the wall with a yellowing map
And it’s dreaming of the whispering sea
[Verse 3]
“You’ll dig a hole to China”
Said my younger days
“And die before you get old
Go out in glory’s 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
[Chorus 3]
Maybe next week
Sometime this year
These things don’t happen overnight
God plans. I laugh
God plans. I laugh
God plans. I laugh
God plans. I laugh