A toe-tapping song that I like a lot. I believe that this is the song my wife really liked the first time she heard it. The interesting thing about this song is that, while the song has a nice, bouncy, tune, the subject matter is pretty depressing. Kind of like Cecilia by Simon & Garfunkle.
The singer has apparently done something to mess up a relationship and feels really bad about it. The closing lines are:
No way I can change the past I know
Tell me baby is it all she wrote
I'd do anything to make this right
Damn, I know you walk the floor all night
Cheryl wrote this song on the Philo Anniversary Tour in Portland, OR. They had been in Seattle the night before, where they heard a Grunge type band. Cheryl was standing in the doorway/alcove watching them play with a "relentless groove". She had been having some personal problems at home, and the two kinda came together and resulted in this song.
- Does The Future Look Black
- Words And Music By:
- Cheryl Wheeler
- What can I say, what can I do
- I can't feel more. Feel more for you
- And everyday I'm walking some street
- Just watchin' it fade beneath my feet
- (Chorus)
- Tell me baby does the future look black
- Can we still look forward if we can't go back
- Am I holdin' you up, holdin' you down
- Making you feel there's no way out
- I see your face, I see my part
- I walked away
- And broke your heart
- And you're marking your time
- And hearing some call
- And you can't find no peace at all
- (Repeat Chorus)
- And I wish I knew what I don't know
- Can't hold on and can't let go
- Something 'bout these ties that bind
- Your broken heart is breaking mine
- I don't care about wrong
- I don't care about right
- Lord I don't want another angry night
- I wanna lay me down
- When the moon comes up
- I wanna feel this love wash over us
- (Repeat Chorus)
- 4/30/94
- (P) May 27, 2003
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