No Accident

from Unbecoming by Missing Monica

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lyrics

If life is what you make it, I’m gonna need some glue
To put it back together, try to make it new.
Something unexpected could mend my broken heart
I’m going through the motions waiting for life to start.

So conscious of the real thing and what I should become
I made the right decisions when I was twenty one
Before all that I believed in, the battles that I fought
Were diluted in the mainstream to be half-accepted thought.

Although I try to change
And the letters rearrange
The message stays the same – and that’s no accident
Even in my fantasies
Everything I try to be
Is tempered by reality – cos nothing happens accidentally.

At times it’s hard to notice the good things in the bad
What used to make me happy, now seem to make me sad.
I look for illumination beneath the exit sign
Is it lighting the potential or just candles for when you die?

Ideas come and go
Like all the things I used to know
Until there’s nothing left – and that’s no accident
Living literally
Can make it hard to see
What the story meant – and that’s no accident

So although I try to change
And the letters rearrange
The message stays the same – and that’s no accident
Even in my fantasies
Everything I try to be
Is tempered by reality – cos nothing happens accidentally.

Every choice and all decisions make a life not chance nor accidents.

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from Unbecoming, released September 29, 2023

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