Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

Right About Now

Words by Keith Reid, outside Procol Harum

Right About Now (Keith Reid / Steve Booker)

Released August 2008 on the album The Common Thread by The Keith Reid Project

Right about now you'll be waking
An' making your breakfast
In the cold grey light of dawn
An' right about now you'll see my letter
The one that tells you I'm not coming home
Right about now I'll become a stranger
An' you'll wonder how I could've been so cruel
And right about now your tears will turn to anger
An' you'll wish you never knew me at all

You'll damn your tears
An' wonder how it came to this
An' the walls will close in so fast
An' your life will go rushing past
An' you'll wonder if you're gonna last
And how wrong you could be
Wrong about me
Right about now

Right about now I'll be driving
And counting the miles that I've put between you and me
An' right about now I'll be asking myself
Why couldn't I be what you wanted me to be
When I dried your tears
Tried to make them disappear

But the walls came in too fast
And my life was just rushing past
And I knew that it couldn't last
And I had to be free
And it had to be
Right about now
Right about now

Yes the walls came in too fast
And our lives went rushing past
An' sometimes things just don't last
An' it gets so hard to see
So hard to be
Right about you
An' right about me
Right about now
Right about now
Right about now
Right about now
Right about now
Right about now

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Beyond the Pale

Right About Now

Words by Keith Reid, outside Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale