Typical of the self-bashing songs I was drawn to write at a certain point, particularly on my inability to get to my feelings. That was a big issue for me for a long time but my five years with Rosalind was a wonderful tonic for that. It was the only language she spoke and since I loved her I needed to learn it. These lyrics have a slight country flavor, since self-bashing songs are a staple in that genre. Can’t imagine that anyone would care but I channeled the theme from the film The Great Impersonation, written by my favorite film score composer, Heinz Roemheld, in the third and fourth lines of the song, and unlike what happened in other songs where I accidentally borrowed a theme, this was intentional.
Lyrics
Revelations
What will it cost me
To take a chance
This seems like just the very reason
for romance
This is the woman
I know I’m right for
This is the moment I have waited
my whole life for
This is a time when two are one
Then suddenly the moment’s gone
I find that very revealing
Just when the loving should start
I can’t imagine what I did with my feelings
I guess I should have looked in my heart
Just basic perspectives
That life rearranges
Yet she gets caught up in such
monumental changes
Now she finds anger
Carefully fashioned
Out of the unrelenting walls
walls of my dispassion
Delicate teardrops start to fall
Suddenly I’m nowhere at all
I find that very revealing
Just when the anger should start
I can’t imagine what I did with my feelings
I guess I should have looked in my heart
Where has my love gone
What can I answer
How can a poet talk of distance
to a dancer
You ask what I’m feeling
Whenever I miss her
But hey there’s no feelings left
She’s taken all that with her
Anger and sorrow, joy and fear
They really had no business here
I find that very revealing
Just when the sorrow should start
I can’t imagine what I did with my feelings
I guess I should have looked in my heart.