Think about it...the Wrong Way sign is a sign that its makers hope you never have to read. If you can read it, you are going the wrong way!
I look at that from a writer's perspective and my first thought is..."Oh he!! no!" I mean, I've never written anything I didn't want everyone in the world to read!
Then the writer takes over and I ask, "What if it wasn't on a highway, but in life, where someone reads the sign?"
 

The Back of a Wrong Way Sign

 

I’ve been on the front side

Seen the front of the sign

But that is the wrong side

Of a wrong way sign

 

I have been there too long

And on its words I’ve relied

But mistaken all along

Because just by seeing those words

Implies something is wrong

 

(chorus)

1 It is the back of the wrong way sign that is right

1 And I want to belong

2          Just wait, and you will see

1 And it won’t be long

2          How happy we can be

1 ‘Til old day is gone

2          With what the new day will bring

1 And the new day is happy

2          When you finally feel loved

3                      Been a long time...been a long time

 

1 Now I’m singing this song

2          Not long ‘fore we’ll be

1 ‘Cause it won’t be long

2          Not you and me, but we

1 Too long I have been gone

2          And happy makes three

1 But the new day is happy

2          When you finally feel loved

3                      I have found the back…finally found the back

All                                The back of the wrong way sign

All                                The back of the wrong way sign

 

It is a sign you should not need to read

Its back is what you prefer to see

At least that is how it is meant to be

But I have been way wrong

Not on the side where I belong

So now I make a move around

The back of the sign, now found

And from it, I found you

Now on horizon’s view

 

(repeat chorus)

 

It is a sign you should not need to read

Its back is what you prefer to see

At least that is how it is meant to be

But I have been way wrong

Not on the side where I belong

So now I make a move around

The back of the sign, now found

And from it, I found you

Now on horizon’s view

 

It has been not we,

But just you and me

But I am going to turn that around

For the back of the sign

Has been finally found

The new day’s horizon

With you in its sights

The darkness is gone

And I now see the lights

The darkness is gone

And I now see the lights

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