Like everyone in my generation, I was very taken with the music of Dire Straits in the '80s.......one favourite was the song "Where do you think you're going ?". I used to sing it to myself very often, until one day, an entirely different set of lyrics formed themselves, so I decided to put it down on paper.
Dire Straits (1986)
Where do you think you're going
Don't you know it's dark outside
Do you know what you are doing
or are you taking yourself for a ride ?
Do you understand the changes
that time has wrought upon your soul ?
Do you see your friends are all strangers
because your relationships were never whole ?
You think there is no reason
why you shouldn't go on as you are
You say this is the season
to hitch your wagon to a star
Where do you think you're going ?
You're living in the past
Your decadence is showing
Your indifference is vast
You're fast approaching the time when
your mind will start to rot
Your field of vision willl be blue, then
and the water will be hot
Where do you think you're bound now ?
You're almost ripe to be put on the shelf
There's still time - turn around now
Come back - and look into yourself
Dire Straits (1986)
Where do you think you're going
Don't you know it's dark outside
Do you know what you are doing
or are you taking yourself for a ride ?
Do you understand the changes
that time has wrought upon your soul ?
Do you see your friends are all strangers
because your relationships were never whole ?
You think there is no reason
why you shouldn't go on as you are
You say this is the season
to hitch your wagon to a star
Where do you think you're going ?
You're living in the past
Your decadence is showing
Your indifference is vast
You're fast approaching the time when
your mind will start to rot
Your field of vision willl be blue, then
and the water will be hot
Where do you think you're bound now ?
You're almost ripe to be put on the shelf
There's still time - turn around now
Come back - and look into yourself
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