If I Could Write A Song

from Lost & Found by Nick Beggs

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What you gonna do today my brother
I’m gonna put one foot in front of the other
So tell me what’s that heavy load you’re carrying
Something that you may have picked up just caring

In every single heart break that happened to some one
Events just too unimaginable start to run
Would life have found a reason could healing be unfurled
If I could write a song to change the world

Tell me where you’re gonna go my sister
Drifting on the autumn breeze like a whisper
Tell me is there some one you are looking for
You never stop searching door to door to door to door

Would it break the course of nature?
Leaving havoc to forsake
Is it better just to sleep and not to wake?
Would life have lost it’s meaning
If the torrent ceased to whirl
And I could write a song to change the world

If I could write a song to change the world
Sing it right and heal your soul
If I could write a song to change the world
Sing it right and heal your soul
Heal your soul
Heal your soul

Whichever way you want to go and cut the cake
Everybody has to know a little heart break
Woven into everyday like a tapestry
The fibers of existence
The treads of what will be

Would life be worth the living?
If there was no more pain
And every hungry child was loved the same
Would things be any clearer?
Like reflections in a pearl
If I could write a song to change the world
If I could write a song to change the world
If I could write a song

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from Lost & Found, released June 9, 2023
Words and melody: Nick Beggs
Guitar: Robin Boult
Written by Nick Beggs and Robin Boult

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Nick Beggs Leighton Buzzard, UK

Current live bass player for Steven Wilson, prime architect of progressive/art rock band The Mute Gods and synth pop band Kajagoogoo. Disgruntled with the world.

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