[Lyric] I Plan God Laughs (Terry Scott Taylor)

[Verse 1]
It's another door slammed and bolted
It's one more window locked
You were on your way back home
And now you're not
With my fingers I form a steeple in such a way
That when I open my hands, there's no one home
Then I call your number just to hear your message on the phone

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Maybe next month
Maybe next year
Oh my, oh my, it's been a long, long time

[Chorus 1]
I plan
God laughs
I plan
God laughs

[Verse 2]
Here's another faded photo
In the year before things changed
I took hard that betrayal
Of an old friend, now estranged
How could I be so mistaken?
Why couldn't I see in all that time I'd been walking on a wire?
Or that I'd be one of many who got torched in his scorched-earth fire?
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I thought by now
He'd come around
All would be forgiven 'cause love would break us down

[Chorus 2]
I planned
God laughed
I planned
God laughed

[Bridge]
The day's as restless as a landlocked sailor
Anxious to move on from old history
His baggage is ready and stacked
Against the wall with a yellowing map
And he's dreaming of the whispering sea

[Verse 3]
"You'll dig a hole to China"
Said my younger days
"And die before you get old
Go out in a glorious blaze"
I won't be aloof like my father, rest his soul
Or like my mother, worried about too many things
Pull myself up by the bootstraps
Be an optimistic dancer in the rain
[Pre-Chorus 3]
Maybe next week
Sometime this year
These things don't happen overnight

[Chorus 3]
God plans
I laugh
God plans
I laugh
God plans
I laugh
God plans
I laugh