Look At Me Now

You said I’d never be nothin’ no-how

I can’t tell the past from the here and the now

I can’t tell apart the horse and the plough

But darlin’ just look at me now

They tell him he’s weak and he can’t take the strain

His head can’t remember, recall or retain

The fog and the mist is swirling  in his brain

He can’t reach the children engulfed in their pain

They said he’d never be nothin’ no-how

Well darlin’ just look at him now

He says look at me now with my jewels and my furs

There’s fifty pound notes, and diamonds  in my purse

They say the delusions are getting much worse

They’re gonna have to call for the nurse

You said I’d never be nothin’ no-how

Well darlin’ just look at me now

She lies in the gutter and she rails at the stars

For a bar that’s still serving, on Pluto or Mars

Sometimes she’s too proud to come in from the rain

She can’t reach the children engulfed in their pain

They said she’d never be nothin’ no-how

Well darlin’ just look at her now

One day she’ll be fine, she’ll be so strong

It’s been fifty odd years and it’s taking too long

And all of these folks will be singing her song

But then again, I could be wrong

You said I’d never be nothin’ no-how

Well darlin’ just look at me now

You said I’d never be nothin’ no-how

Well darlin’ just look at me now

You said I’d never be nothin’ no-how

Well darlin’ just look at me now

(lyrics by Vin Murtagh ©2015)