C) Hands of Fate (Remix)

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.