i have my doubts ... 17may2004

what seems was unintended, might well have been the plan

judging from the consequence of some "ordinary" man

in retrospect it's evident, there was a better way

by then it's done, in time to come, we'll all have hell to pay

the issue is decided as if your opinion counts

that's the schoolbook story but you know i have my doubts

 

i have my doubts, and they're intense

i've listened to the explanations, and they make no sense

i'm unconvinced, by all accounts

it could be all coincidence, but you know i have my doubts

 

the truth is undefended in a desert full of lies

it is locked up in the cabinet, away from prying eyes

it's for our own protection, like children we are told

all we can do is hope and pray and watch events unfold

you're for us or a'gin us, the banner waver shouts

he says it's for old glory but you know i have my doubts

 

when faith is apprehended by bureaucratic tools

there's no freedom in the number of their arbitrary rules

competing for complete control of what we do and say

each insisting that they are the one and only way

somewhere a scribe is listing just who'll be "ins" and "outs"

that's the good book story, but you know i have my doubts

 

stephenhsmith  17may2004