Fast Forward

(Instrumental Intro)

Always in a hurry
On some wild pretext
That’s us in a hurry
Always in a hurry
To some new event
Why! … there’s no need to scurry
Use all the time that’s lent.

Pass quietly through the meadows
While on your course
Though the rolling heather, hills and gorse
Riding in a carriage 
Behind a very handsome trotting horse.
A handsome trotting horse

It’s true, jet airliners
Quickly take us to their source
But we’ve passed over all the valleys
The hills and watercourse

Through life we play fast forward
Yes! we play it forward
And in a way, that’s quite perverse
All the while forgetting
In life …. No reverse
When did smart technology
Become the People’s nurse
Is it then our Saviour …. Our Saviour
Or something more perverse.

Playing forward now

Play it faster 
But we play fast forward
Right to the very last.

(instrumental outro)

Rodd Sherwin
to composition by
Jeremy Wiliams