Lyrics

It Seeemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Maybe I shouldn’t have said what I said.
I don’t know why it came into my head.
Maybe I would have been better off dead.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I know now I needed to pause and reflect.
I know my decision was incorrect.
It looks really stupid in retrospect,
but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I wasn’t a very prophetic forecaster.
If only I had the epiphany faster,
maybe I could have averted disaster,
but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Maybe I should have turned a blind eye.
Maybe I should have let sleeping dogs lie.
Why did I do it? I don’t know why.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.

You might say that my foresight was blurry,
that I acted in haste, in a furious hurry.
All I can say to the judge and the jury
is it seemed like a good idea at the time.

There wasn’t a reason. There wasn’t a rhyme.
There wasn’t a shift in the paradigm,
but when I return to the scene of the crime,
it seems like a good idea at the time.