From the recording To The Bottom Line
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I was half-way into writing this when I got writer’s block. Unfortunately, it took the tragic death of a former student in a traffic accident to shock me into finishing the song. <br /><br /></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"><em>© 1997 Steven E. Cutts (ASCAP)</em></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"><strong>recorded in March 2000</strong> at Bias Studios (recorded and mixed by Jim Robeson)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">on<em> All Alone . . . But Hardly On My Own<br /><br /></em></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"><strong> </strong>Steve, <em>acoustic guitar, synthesizer, & vocal</em> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Robert Bartley, <em>percussion</em></span></span></li>
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Lyrics
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Lightning doesn't seek permission when it strikes;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The thunder rumbles afterward and not before.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Assassins do not notify their targets;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">They simply pull the trigger and then run for the open door.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The avalanche slashes down the mountainside;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The head-on drunk swerves across the double line.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Lives change in just a single heartbeat.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">In the blink of an eye whole worlds turn upside down.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Too fast things can fall apart and ships can run aground.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Jack Kennedy could never have imagined how that autumn day </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Would end down there in Dallas back in nineteen sixty-three.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Buddy Holly never figured that his plane'd go down that snowy night</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The Iowa cornfield claimed three music casualties.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The Hindenburg was not supposed to crash in flames. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">The Lindbergh baby paid the price of Daddy's fame.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Lives change in just a single heartbeat . . .</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I'd better say the words I mean to say;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Hug the folks I need to hug;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Forget about the things</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">That simply waste my time.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I'd better try to find the harmony;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Find some peace in every day;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Try to find what gets me,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">What gets me to the bottom line.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Because we can't see around life's corners; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Because we cannot be sure what single moments will become</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Best not to assume that we will get another day</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">To get things right, to finish all that's left undone.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">"And now I lay me down to sleep; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I pray the Lord my soul to keep"</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Lives change in just a single heartbeat . . .</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">We'd better say the words we mean to say; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Hug the folks we need to hug</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Forget about the things</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">That simply waste our time.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">We’d better try to find the harmony;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Find some peace in every day;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Try to find what gets us,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">What gets us to the bottom line.</span></span></p>