Forget the Past (lyrics)

I wrote this song around 2000, in an attempt to remind myself that the music is not the music business. My band at the time Blueground Undergrass was tanking with internal conflict and this was my attempt to remind myself, and the band, about the live show and the power of music. It's also a statement on the existential aloneness of togetherness.

It appears on the album "Newground" which can only be found used online. Thanks Ian Brown for asking me for the lyrics. -JM


Forget the Past by Jeff Mosier

The old man and his band were all in tune.
They stepped right up and filled the room.
And the dancers as they slowly came around,
That ole' floor was solid ground.
As they danced away their troubles they could find their way.
They let the music do its magic while the whole band played.
In the sound they found the answers to their every wound.
Forget the past, then you'll hear your tune.

As the band played on the dancers closed their eyes.
As night went on they realized.
That the sound of the music takes away,
all the pain that tries its best to stay.
As they danced away their troubles they could find their way.
They let the music do its magic while the whole band played.
In the sound they found the answers to their every wound.
Forget the past, then you'll hear your tune.

Bridge
Life gets hard when the music goes away.
You've got to change the steps you're doing as the music plays.
Never let your feet stop movin' on that ole' dance floor.
When the music speaks, there's nothing more, nothing more.

Life gets hard when the music goes away.
You've got to change the steps you're doing as the music plays.
Never let your feet stop moving on that ole' dance floor.
Forget the past
Them you'll hear your tune
Forget the past now.
Forget the past.