Let's see...the title isn't mentioned in the song at all...I used words that aren't even words...I don't really believe in the content of the song 100%...all the makings of a good song! LOL. Honestly, I'm a "fixer". I want to fix everything that's wrong, cure every dying friend, mend every worn and torn relationship. Things that aren't humanly possible. So to try to make sense of some heartbreaking current situations, I threw this song together out of sheer frustration. I'm better now. Ragged and clangy sounding...may be my trademark!
I thought if I fought hard and long
That loved ones wouldn't die
The sick would rise and sing a song
And mothers wouldn't cry
And I tried grieving early
To soften up the pain
But that was torture surely
About rendered me insane
I've had some major battles
With the God of the universe
I said "you're treating us like cattle"
But I didn't quite dare to curse...
"Why are my friends all dying?"
"Where is the justice there?"
Nearly finished whatforing and whying
"Oh, and why did I lose my hair???"
Chorus:
I can't change a thing
I know it's not on me
I'm just a tiny rowboat
On a vast and open sea
I can't change a thing
It's a comfort I admit
To cast it all to Providence
And exhale just a bit
Then I got a huge reminder
That all things work for good
It may even make me kinder
To put my feet where you have stood
And when it rains it hits us all
Never minding who we are
If it doesn't kill, what cuts me now
Will only leave a scar
And that scar will show me that I dared to brave harm's way
That I stood in that gap for love and never once was swayed
Chorus:
I can't change a thing
I know it's not on me
I'm just a tiny rowboat
On a vast and open sea
I can't change a thing
It's a comfort I admit
To cast it all to Providence
And exhale just a bit