Politician's Conception

I was walking down life’s highway thinking of yesterday Boy I learned a lesson that’s why I write today The freight train called tomorrow smacked me oh so fast I didn’t see it coming because I was staring at my past I hope I learned the lesson and will let it guide me true Yesterdays gone, nothing more that we can do If you didn’t learn its lesson I promise we are lost If we don’t look forward you can’t believe the cost So I promised me, to always look ahead, in an act of true contrition Because I wouldn’t want to die and go to hell and become a politician