This song struck a chord with John Vallins, a friend who happened to have a studio and, as chance would have it, was even a musician. He liked this one, we recorded it, and the rest is history. If there actually is a history when the seas rise and fires burn.

Verse 1:
They tell me that the seas will rise
And maybe they are right
And maybe not, I don't really care
Nothing's going to happen over night
And by the time it does
I'll have moved into sweet repose
Someone else will have to clean up the mess
That’s just the way it goes

Chorus:
I'll be dead before it happens
It's no concern of mine
It's someone else's problem
In somebody else's time


Verse 2:
If the whole wide world
Becomes an ugly place to be
Someone will have to be living there
But that someone won't be me
So while I'm still alive
I proudly do not care
I'm not particularly interested
Because I won't be there

Chorus:
I'll be dead before it happens
It's no concern of mine
It's someone else's problem
In somebody else's time


Verse 3:
There are strange men on the TV
They claim that it's all a hoax
While they might not making perfect sense
They seem to be clever folk
It suits me to believe
That they just might be right
But let me tell you none of it
Is keeping me up at night.

Chorus:
I'll be dead before it happens
It's no concern of mine
It's someone else's problem
In somebody else's time


Verse 4:
One day in the Future
My grandkids will be grown
Maybe they'll judge me harshly
But I'll be dead so i wont know
I guess I've dodged a bullet
It’s pretty great to be me
I’ve finally found a benefit
Of being over 70

Chorus:
I'll be dead before it happens
It's no concern of mine
It's someone else's problem
In somebody else's time

I'll Be Dead Before It Happens

I'll Be Dead Before it Happens

This tune was released  by Eurythmics in 1983 and performed by me here on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #542 by Eurythmics

Prisoner of Memory

Airy A-Town Vibe

mAyEkEyE - Sun

Nightowl

submission for OST Fragments Jam #3 hosted by resident // cryptid for Itch.IO September 2025

Seventeen year-old Eärendil ​(in Sun-Year 520-521) is about ready to do the initial shakedowns of Vingilótë ​to make sure it doesn't fall apart in the middle of the harbor (that would be embarrassing...) but is having second thoughts about this whole savior of the Free Peoples idea. Círdan ​says 'if you want to dip out and run away that's your absolute right. We won't be best pleased but you are a free individual." (Knowing sagely that he will almost certainly change his mind). The young fellow goes out and has a daydream among the surrounding fields slaying bumblebees /various insects. Essentially the same premise as the 1933 poem except in this rationale both it and Eärendillinwë​​ are now about Eärendil ​, just at different stages of life.

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All I Ever Wanted

Sweet Summer (DEMO)

Hymn for the Wicked (Reimagined)


sunlight streams through my eyes
i can finally see what's hiding in the shadows

all i ever wanted was to feel alive
but we're all gone missing in this dead circle
there's something in my scars, let's drink this pain away
i've been fighting you for way too long
i'm wounded, but i'm breathing, oh bloody superstition

don't open up the hell on me 

please don't come closer, i am a monster
if there's a way back in, i'm gonna bleed it out
would you still blame me? would you still hate me?
they call me the lost cause, but i'll fight it back

i'm fine, just stop hatin' me

all the victims, they sing
dismembered dignity will voice a revolution
desperate in his madness, the murderer don't sleep
slowly falling deeper into the dire

lost in the violence
you've been gone for so long
breathe despite the way you feel
keep walking, try to reach, reach new paradigms

please don't come closer, i am a monster
if there's a way back in, i'm gonna bleed it out
would you still blame me? would you still hate me?
they call me the lost cause, but i'll fight it back

i beg you to fucking spare me

as heaven is watching, i still hope i was never mistaken
promise i would still guide you on your way
but so far it's been getting darker

Prisoner of Memory

Avelam