What Happens Now?

Porcupine Tree

So I got all these things, but so what?
In the end you can't take them with you
You think you can save my soul? Well Ok...
Tell me, with all your conviction
What happens now?

Well I could be boarding an aircraft
With a bomb concealed in somebody's briefcase
And my body will spread through the heavens, across the sky
And my ashes will fall through the cloudburst
What happens now?
What happens now?


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What Happens Now? Lyrics as written by Richard Barbieri Colin Edwin Balch

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    It fits a scenario in my life. I just hooked up with a girl a week a go, just before she broke up with her boyfriend. She came on me and I didnt say no. I used to be in love with her but I put it all behind me cause I used to hang with her and her boyfriend as friends. This happened for about 8 months, and I really thought we had a good friendship with the guy.

    The first verse says ::: That I got the girl, but I cant be a fool to believe I could keep on having a ::: relationship with her on these terms

    The second verse ::: I am having second thoughts on what is happening and want to break it up.

    Well I could be :::
    boarding an aircraft ::: Thats the relationship I could be having with the girl

    With a bomb... ::: That somebody is the ex, and the bomb would be him seeing us together, or if he ... briefcase ::: just learned it somehow.

    And my body... ::: Thats my psychology if the "bomb" would explode. ... cloudburst :::

    I cant not let him know what happened. I think it is better for him to know the truth and get over it, than let the years go by thinking what went wrong. I was in a same situation and I never learned the truth. I wish I had. I dont care if I dont do anything with the girl again, I just want to be honest even now, I betrayed a friend and I wish he could someday forgive me but probably I'm getting my ass kicked and he will never speak to me again.

    iamthedudeon May 20, 2012   Link

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