Fate do me right
Written by: John Cote

Crazy from this heat and the air
You can cut with a knife
So I jump in my car
And head out for the coast tonight

Because it's there that I know
I can find some piece of mind
Looking out at the sea
As it dances on the shore line

I know how you'd look right now
With you hair flaming on the breeze
You'd change this state of isolation
Into a fountain of ecstasy

But I went and put it on the line
To pursue this dream of mine
Now alone I ponder on this night
Did fate do me right?

The time had finally come for me
To get up the nerve to leave
And set out to seek
A future in these hasty streets

These feet, I know
Should have touched down long ago
But they just can't keep
From marching to their own beat

I can't bother stressing about
That road behind me stretching out
Littered up with broken dreams
Pledges made but never seen

As the years role on incessantly
The music still beacons me
Like a moth into the light
But did fate do me right?

How many more rounds are there left to go
And how many punches will I need to throw
I've hit that mat so many times I've got the markings on my face to show
But I'll savor in spoils of this fight
Should fate do me right

As the tide draws the ocean out
And the sand immerges from the sea
There's an icy blue illumination
On this all-too-momentary scene
Fortunate for me to see
But tonight you would be here to be
A witness to this lovely sight
If fate did me right

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