We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

I Plan, God Laughs

from This Beautiful Mystery by Terry Scott Taylor

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $2 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    2-CD Set in a gatefold case, includes lyric booklet. 21 tracks!

    Includes unlimited streaming of This Beautiful Mystery via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    5 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $30 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Beautiful gatefold tri-colored triple LP. Comes with a full-size 6-page lyric booklet. Includes bonus tracks (demos, instrumental) not available on the CD version. Extremely limited!

    Includes unlimited streaming of This Beautiful Mystery via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 510  10 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $50 USD or more 

     

lyrics

It’s another door slammed and bolted
It’s one more window locked
You were on your way back home and
now you’re not
With my fingers I form a steeple
In such a way when I open my hands
there’s no one home
Then I call your number
Just to hear your message on the phone

Maybe next month
Maybe next year
Oh my oh my it’s been a long long time
I plan, God laughs
I plan, God laughs

Here’s another faded photo
In the year before things changed
I took hard that betrayal
Of an old friend, now estranged
How could I be so mistaken
Why couldn’t I see in all that time
I’d been walking a wire?
Or that I’d be one of many who
Got torched in his scorched-earth fire?

I thought by now
He’d come around
All would be forgiven ‘cos
Love would break us down
I planned, God laughed
I planned, God laughed

The day’s as restless as a land-locked sailor
Anxious to move on from old history
His baggage is ready and stacked
Against the wall with a yellowing map
And he’s dreaming of the whispering sea

“You’ll dig a hole to China,”
Said my younger days,
“And die before you get old,
Go out in a glorious blaze”
I won’t be aloof like my father,
Rest his soul, or like my mother
Worried about too many things
Pull myself up by my boot-straps,
Be an optimistic dancer in the rain

Maybe next week,
Sometime this year
These things don’t happen over night
God plans, I laugh
God plans, I laugh
God plans, I laugh
God plans, I laugh...

credits

from This Beautiful Mystery, released February 4, 2022

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Terry Scott Taylor

contact / help

Contact Terry Scott Taylor

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Terry Scott Taylor, you may also like: