Pretty Good Plan - Jace Everett

When the sun came up and the world was new

There was not a thing that we could not do

With hearts on fire and flowers in our hair

And we sang our songs and we clapped our hands

And the lame would walk and the weak would stand

Singing, «my sweet lord, I’ll meet you in the air»

Yours was mine and mine was yours

Love would open every door

But something changed

Can you help me understand

I though it was a pretty good plan

Well you picked your spot on the highest hill

And you raised your cup and you drank my fill

Looking down on where we used to stand

So we gathered round there beneath your feet

And you built a tomb where we all could meet

But did someone set their rock on sinking sand

There was laws and there was rules

Some for kings and more for fools

We all tried to understand your pretty good plan

I gave mine and you took yours

Hid behind your golden doors

It all gets strange when the money’s changing hands

Thought it was a pretty good plan

Our good intentions may pave the road ahead

Why do we always find our hearts are

Somewhere else instead

Was laws and there was rules

Some for kings and more for fools

We all tried to understand this pretty good plan

I gave mine and you took yours

Hid behind your golden doors

It all gets strange when the money’s changing hands

What happened to the pretty good plan