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Good Luck, Bad Luck Lyrics
The film script lies ahead
Change the future, change the past
Choose the players, choose the role
Cast of thousands, cast of few
Imagination decides the plot
Play the good guy, play the bad
Here's the victim, here's the saint
Here's the canvas, here's the paint
Good luck bad luck who knows
Good luck bad luck who knows
The world is peopled by many minds
Whirling faster than the wind
Solving a dilemma of life and death
Trying to make some sense of it all
No good blaming the outside world
Pleasure and pain are in the mind
Whether we like it or whether we don't
We found as much as we wanted to find
Good luck, bad luck who knows
Good luck, bad luck
Good luck, bad luck who knows
Good luck, bad luck
Good luck, bad luck who knows
Good luck, bad luck
We can make it horror we can make it blue
We can make it slow time, make it move
The director sits behind those eyes
Play it straight or in disguise
Imagination decides the plot
Play the good guy play the bad
Here's the victim, here's the saint
Here's the canvas and here's the paint
Good luck, good
Good luck bad luck who knows
Good luck bad luck who knows?
Change the future, change the past
Choose the players, choose the role
Cast of thousands, cast of few
Imagination decides the plot
Play the good guy, play the bad
Here's the victim, here's the saint
Here's the canvas, here's the paint
Good luck bad luck who knows
Whirling faster than the wind
Solving a dilemma of life and death
Trying to make some sense of it all
No good blaming the outside world
Pleasure and pain are in the mind
Whether we like it or whether we don't
We found as much as we wanted to find
Good luck, bad luck
Good luck, bad luck who knows
Good luck, bad luck
Good luck, bad luck who knows
Good luck, bad luck
We can make it slow time, make it move
The director sits behind those eyes
Play it straight or in disguise
Imagination decides the plot
Play the good guy play the bad
Here's the victim, here's the saint
Here's the canvas and here's the paint
Good luck bad luck who knows
Good luck bad luck who knows?
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Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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The first verse appears to based on a discussion between the two main characters in Illusions, by Richard Bach. Don is telling Richard that movies are a metaphor for our lives in spacetime. It's possible that the analogy is original to Howard Jones, but the wording is similar enough that it is probably an homage.
The second verse is taken almost word for word from a passage in book one chapter one of Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. It is a vision given to Dan by his mentor Socrates.
The title is from a later section of the same book, in which Socrates tells a parable of a man who responds to a series of events, some good and some bad, by saying this phrase. The lesson is that no event is definitely good or bad, until seen much later as part of a tapestry of events.
Both of these books are fictional autobiographies in which the author meets a spiritual guru who leads them to a deeper understanding of the nature of reality.