Dear Future Self
from Mood Swings by Gadget
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MOOD SWINGS INSTRUMENTALS ON BLUE OR RED TAPE
lyrics
Dear Future Self
Dear Future Self, what’s happening now?
Are you settled down looking happy and proud?
Releasing your words to a passionate crowd?
Are you still anxious and rattled with doubt?
Is there family round - did you create?
Do you still have dreams to one day be great?
Are people united or breathing hate?
What’s the climate like? Do the seasons change?
Is it an equal race - whose at the top?
Is there war, anger, losing the plot?
Religious individuals assuming your lost?
What’s the radio like - do you tune in a lot?
Is the music forgot or still in your soul?
Do you love the heat? Dread the winter cold?
Have you travelled far - seen the inca’s gold?
Do you think like me or is your thinking old?
Chorus -
To my future self in a distant place
Just like me but her wisdom’s great
I met my future self and the rhythm played
She said appreciate and just live your days’
Dear Future Self, has the world progressed?
Do you feel happy or are you depressed?
Do you worry less or is life a stress?
Are you calm, peaceful, with time to rest?
Is it shining less - the sun you adore?
Did you move closer- absorbed by the shores?
Are there still wars - is the fighting raw?
Do your looks mean less now you’re ninety-four?
Are you rhyming more observing the world?
Do you love the poetry you learnt as a girl?
Do you feel lost or disconnected?
Is difference rejected? Are people accepted?
And whose rested - whose departed?
Did you say goodbye to your father?
Do you wish that your tried a bit harder?
How long have you got? I’m only just getting started.
Chorus -
To my future self in a distant place
Just like me but her wisdom’s great
I met my future self and the rhythm played
She said appreciate and just live your days’
I stopped. She replied wisely.
I saw myself as I gazed in her eyes deep
As she spoke her words would remind me
That life moves fast and the time speeds
She said I dream of a place where
I can feel at home and be safe there
Know my children are grown and their pay’s fair
Pollution - lungs groan when they taste air
And I wake scared she said slowly
The world moves fast and i’m lonely
The questions you ask kinda throw me
Cause the answers won’t help you to know me
Yes my home’s sweet - I smell the ocean,
Yes my words still hold my emotion,
Yes there’s war and the winters are frozen
Changes & sameness - just grasp every moment
Chorus x2 -
To my future self in a distant place
Just like me but her wisdom’s great
I met my future self and the rhythm played
She said appreciate and just live your days’
Dear Future Self, what’s happening now?
Are you settled down looking happy and proud?
Releasing your words to a passionate crowd?
Are you still anxious and rattled with doubt?
Is there family round - did you create?
Do you still have dreams to one day be great?
Are people united or breathing hate?
What’s the climate like? Do the seasons change?
Is it an equal race - whose at the top?
Is there war, anger, losing the plot?
Religious individuals assuming your lost?
What’s the radio like - do you tune in a lot?
Is the music forgot or still in your soul?
Do you love the heat? Dread the winter cold?
Have you travelled far - seen the inca’s gold?
Do you think like me or is your thinking old?
Chorus -
To my future self in a distant place
Just like me but her wisdom’s great
I met my future self and the rhythm played
She said appreciate and just live your days’
Dear Future Self, has the world progressed?
Do you feel happy or are you depressed?
Do you worry less or is life a stress?
Are you calm, peaceful, with time to rest?
Is it shining less - the sun you adore?
Did you move closer- absorbed by the shores?
Are there still wars - is the fighting raw?
Do your looks mean less now you’re ninety-four?
Are you rhyming more observing the world?
Do you love the poetry you learnt as a girl?
Do you feel lost or disconnected?
Is difference rejected? Are people accepted?
And whose rested - whose departed?
Did you say goodbye to your father?
Do you wish that your tried a bit harder?
How long have you got? I’m only just getting started.
Chorus -
To my future self in a distant place
Just like me but her wisdom’s great
I met my future self and the rhythm played
She said appreciate and just live your days’
I stopped. She replied wisely.
I saw myself as I gazed in her eyes deep
As she spoke her words would remind me
That life moves fast and the time speeds
She said I dream of a place where
I can feel at home and be safe there
Know my children are grown and their pay’s fair
Pollution - lungs groan when they taste air
And I wake scared she said slowly
The world moves fast and i’m lonely
The questions you ask kinda throw me
Cause the answers won’t help you to know me
Yes my home’s sweet - I smell the ocean,
Yes my words still hold my emotion,
Yes there’s war and the winters are frozen
Changes & sameness - just grasp every moment
Chorus x2 -
To my future self in a distant place
Just like me but her wisdom’s great
I met my future self and the rhythm played
She said appreciate and just live your days’
credits
from Mood Swings,
released September 9, 2016
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Gadget London, UK
A Guyanese/Dominican from Hackney, London. Born into a musical family where music became his first love. After dabbling with instruments and production gear left around the family home or playing at school, he became a DnB DJ/MC and later a sound engineer, producer, vocal artist and ghost writer, occasional promoter and founder of the Millennium Jazz Music label and the Jazz Jousters collective. ... more
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