As far as I can figure the lyrics to this song (writing them and investing them with meaning are separate processes, y’know?) the protagonist is a kind of downtrodden everyman/everywoman… about how I figured someone married to me would turn out in a decade or two. Or six months.
These are the kind of elemental lyrics that make songwriters like me want to mumble (as if I could still pretend to shame after these nearly 90s songs) and it is only commitment to the process that allows me to grit and paste them into this post. But one of the most important lessons of rock and roll, I think, is that, if you have stupid lyrics to sing, sing them loud. Mumbling stupid lyrics is sure to invite eventual abuse. Shouting them out proudly, stupidly, now, that, my friend, was rock and roll.
It’s Only Been a Million Years
One day you’ll wake up
and figure out I’ve gone
Only thing surprising
took so damn long
It’s only been a million years
since I had a dream
It’s only been forever
since I felt a thing
One day I love you
next day I don’t
Hard to believe
You didn’t know
It only takes an instant
for the hottest flame to die
it only takes forever
to spend your life wondering why
It’s only been a million years
since I had a dream
It’s only been forever
since I felt a thing
(C)1990, TK Major
