"Everything I Think I Know - I Think"

My take on a very poignant tune by singer-songwriter David Wilcox, ©2018

Do you ever wonder - when you get to the pearly gates and all the stats have been tallied, will they add up in your favor? Surely, one of the lowest bars for entrance that I could conceive of would be something like - “As you look back on your life, were you right more times than you were wrong?” I personally am a little nervous.

The other day as I was leaving a local convenience store with a mug of coffee in one hand and a muffin in the other, a roughly nine-year-old girl and her father were squabbling in front of me as they grabbed at the glass door handle. The domineering, “bad-father-figure” prevailed, and his daughter stormed off. His trailing arm held the door open for me. As they walked off, I could just barely hear her as she turned to her dad - “I, wanted to hold the door for him.”

There was no “bad-father-figure” here, just a misunderstanding between a kind man and a daughter he had nurtured so well. How many other times had I seen and judged people, for lack of an explanation?

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David Wilcox is as talented a musician as he is a lyricist. He’s a master of open tunings and his acoustic guitar playing never disappoints. In this particular song - Everything I Think I Know, I Think - he weaves reality with humility to acknowledge our flawed belief systems.

. . . Tit for Tat, turns to hate,

     fallacies accumulate,

And anger hides the facts that I lack.

I push away the doubt I feel,

     prepared to die for some ideal

Sayin’ stuff, I can’t take back

Speedin’ up my heart attack . . . .

Please do check out this clever and thought-provoking song. Maybe you’ll join me in applying his strategy the next time we encounter the brick walls of doubt.

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