Here’s the inside story …
Behind Let Your Light Shine Through.
Not Sure
Words and Music by Bobby Angel
Where am I now and what happened last night, I’m not sure? As I get to my feet and pull the sheet over her shoulder. I go to the kitchen and splash water on my face and slide my shades into place. You know I do what I do because I’ve always done it that way. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
How much longer can I go on living like this, I’m not sure? Other than I don’t think this drink will be my last one. Someday I promise I’ll go straight, and hopefully not before it’s too late. You know I’m just trying my best to get past the moment. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Is it me or does something feel different tonight, I’m not sure? As she walks through the door and sits next to me at the bar. Next think I know we’re chatting it up as the bartender he fills up our cup. Here I go again just like I did the other day. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Is this just a short walk to her car, I’m not sure? As she pulls the keys from her purse and she opens up the door. Can’t be convinced that I’m doing no harm as she lies asleep in my arms. Best present yet and it isn’t even my birthday. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Where am I now and what happened last night, I’m not sure? As I get to my feet and pull the sheet over her shoulder. I go to the kitchen and splash water on my face and slide my shades into place. You know I do what I do because I’ve always done it that way. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
New Dawn
Words and Music by Bobby Angel
Cards were bad and in a hole, had a low pair and was about to fold, Didn’t expect to be down so far in the game with younger faces all around whispering the same, But against my better judgement stayed in, doubled down and called his bluff I was going for the win. Whatever happened before now, it’s a thing of the past. And I gotta admit it came as a complete surprise, unexpected.
It was a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, we just had to stay up all night to see it.
The darkest hour was coming on strong, everything I did wrong piling on. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, I got a train coming at me on a collision course. No path ahead or way to retreat, I was a gonner in the tunnel of my final defeat Lights flashed in my eyes before I finally realized, not a train at all, just the best thing I ever saw.
It was a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, we just had to stay up all night to see it.
Did my best but now I wonder why I even bothered to try. So I’ll be on my way, Just wasn’t in the cards at the end of the day, hit the trail out of town, hung my head with dread and stared at the ground. It was the darkest hour yet, the farthest from the sunset and then what came next was completely unexpected.
It was a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, we just had to stay up all night to see it.
Barbarians knocking at the door Horsemen I’m counting four, Iagos whispering in my ear and the grim reaper is drawing near Vultures are perched on the roof, dear lord I don’t need any more proof. Fell to my knees to pray when I saw that golden ray and staggered to my feet in complete disbelief.
It was a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, a new dawn at last, we just had to stay up all night to see it.
Why do today …
What you can put off until tomorrow?
Bobby Angel explains how that plight helped create the song.