One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some strange prints did appear,
And I asked the Lord, “What have we here?
Those prints are large and round and neat,
O Lord, they’re too big for my feet.”
“My child,” He said in somber tones,
“For miles I carried you along.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait.
You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt.
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand!
…or leave their butt prints in the sand.”
ik speelde dagelijks sonates
en eenmaal zachter dan tevoren
terwijl ik dacht dat je 't niet kon horen
de Mondschein die jouw voorkeur had
je bracht het loodwit als een kuif op water
zodat de golfslag al maar wilder werd
en grauwe wolken leek te raken
nu rondden bleke handen het palet
je volle aandacht kreeg mijn spel
terwijl jouw fluitend hoortoestel
de slotmaat tergend overtroefde
riep je plots de componist bij naam
u must have heard this before,
this is part of reality,
but reality contains more,
U don't kill,
after hearing a song,
it pumps u up... but still,
it doesn't do anything wrong,
Anger builds up in so many ways,
it's a process of years,
in some cases maybe just days,
but music ain't what the victim fears,
It's a knife or maybe a gun,
that one uncontrolled slice,
that bullet that ends the fun,
the artist doesn't roll the dice.
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some strange prints did appear,
And I asked the Lord, “What have we here?
Those prints are large and round and neat,
O Lord, they’re too big for my feet.”
“My child,” He said in somber tones,
“For miles I carried you along.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait.
You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt.
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand!
…or leave their butt prints in the sand.”
en eenmaal zachter dan tevoren
terwijl ik dacht dat je 't niet kon horen
de Mondschein die jouw voorkeur had
je bracht het loodwit als een kuif op water
zodat de golfslag al maar wilder werd
en grauwe wolken leek te raken
nu rondden bleke handen het palet
je volle aandacht kreeg mijn spel
terwijl jouw fluitend hoortoestel
de slotmaat tergend overtroefde
riep je plots de componist bij naam