Eric Wood
Not Because
Not Because in dreams or theory
Or strange episode
Animated in some divine game
Does the silver sun turn golden
Right before our eyes beholdin’
Not because in some designer’s name
Not because it’s written in some
Jive genetic code
That can be explicitly explained
Do the lips of star-crossed lovers
Part and press into each other’s
Not Because there’s clouds does come the rain
Not Because life’s like a bucket of flowing water,
A box of wind or a painting on the panes
Not because on bended knee will
Supplicants fast fall
To what they think over them does reign
Does it mean that answered prayer
Comes from some one way upstairs
Not Because things change is why things change
(repeat chorus)