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COMING SOON: Stream or download 'Hands of Fate (Remix)' - audio links: 


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C) Hands of Fate (Remix)

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Lyrics: Hands of Fate


So-o-o

Don't be late

'Cause it's August 28th

And you've got a special date

With your destiny.


And when the hands on the clock

Point to 08:48

You will feel the hands of fate

Are upon you.


In the next life you'll be free

Like the birds of the air

And you will not have a care

For what to do or what to wear

Or the way you comb your hair.


Maybe next time around

You'll be lost and never found

By the never ending sound

That brings your down.


And each 28th of August

Could have been so much more.

And each 28th of August

Should have been so much more.


Ooo Ooo, Ahh Ahh

Hands of Fate

Over You

Ooo Ooo, Ahh Ahh

Hands of Fate

Follow You


Then at 08:49

You said "Maybe one more time"

For there was nothing left of Rhyme

Nor of Reason.


So another year may pass,

'tho time may never last,

But at least you'll hang in 

For Another Season


And each 28th of August

Now can be so much more.

And each 28th of August

It will be so much more.


Ooo Ooo, Ahh Ahh

Hands of Fate

Over You

Ooo Ooo, Ahh Ahh

Hands of Fate

Follow You


I thought I heard you say

"I must have something in my eye".

The jester was off playing

When we missed our time to fly.


[Laughter]

Scoffs




Hands of Fate

Credits

 

All  instruments and vocals David Denton

Song written by David Denton Copyright 2019

Recorded and Published by Phenomenal Records and David Denton Copyright 2020

Background Info

While 'The Recent Future' CD does not have a literal 'theme' or storyline like the 'All Systems Go' CD, it does have a loose underlying them of unexpected reversals.


True to that undercurrent, this song is about a couple driving in a car.  As they speed through an intersection they didn't notice that the had run through a red light.  A truck was barrelling through at high speed.  By all rights, it should have broadsided them and they probably would have died.   But somehow, and seemingly without human cause, the truck swerved almost as if blown aside just enough to miss them.


I wonder if, in that moment when time seems to nearly stop, perhaps the words and notions of this song flashed quickly through the mind of the car's lucky driver?


I wonder if the day he almost died (August 28th) meant something more every year thereafter? Or perhaps he mourned having wasted every other 'August 28th' that came in his life before 'that' day?


I wonder if people stop to realize how lucky they are to be alive each day, and how it is strange that we sometimes don't realize it until it is almost too late.



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