Every time you know you’re right…your opinion’s like a stick of dynamite…

…and everybody’s got one. Opinion that is.

Have you ever noticed how a lot of people are loud and staunch supporters of free speech until someone tells them something they don’t want to hear? Especially if what they hear is true. Truth has a way of making people mad. Them’s fightin’ words, son. And just saying that sentence “truth has a way of making people mad” makes many people mad. Ironic isn’t it?

Truth has become so relative that now not even our relatives want to hear it.

If you don’t believe truth exists, then you certainly don’t believe absolute truth exists. But it does. Oops…there go them fightin’ words agin dag nab it. I know, full well, that by saying absolute truth exists I stir up the ire of relativists everywhere. That’s because they know I’m absolutely wrong…which isn’t absolutely true…but then again…it is.

Confused? Well, that’s just the tip of the iceberg we’re heading toward. Would you believe way back in 1989 I wrote a song about this very thing? You would?! Well, good, because I did. And now I’m gonna share the lyrics with you and let them be the last I’ll say on the subject. Here are the words to…

Everybody’s Got One

Jesse says he wants equality;
says we’ve got goals to reach
Jimmy’s war is with iniquity;
says he’s got souls to teach
Norma claims that it’s her right to make her own decision
Nancy wildly disagrees; they’re on a one-way collision

Every time you know you’re right
Your opinion’s like a stick of dynamite
And everybody’s got one!

Danny says he wants respect; says he’s got a job to do
But David jabs and pokes his fun;
just the same as me and you
Pat declares we all should pay to clean up our environment
And Joan believes it’s federal;
so leave it to the government

Every time you know you’re right
Your opinion’s like a stick of dynamite
And everybody’s got one…everybody’s got one

Everybody’s got one
Sometimes it’s right,
but sometimes we put it in the wrong place

Everybody’s got one
Sometimes we should hold back,
And those times we end up with egg on our face
It’s our right, but we’re not always right…not always right,
But everybody’s got one

Scott insists that we evolved; that Darwin proved it years ago
But Tony’s faith is with his God; the Holy Spirit tells him so
And Sue defends the life she leads; calls herself a working girl
But Kathy says she sold her soul,
And that’s the problem with the world

Every time you know you’re right,
Your opinion’s like a stick of dynamite
And everybody’s got one…everybody’s got one

Chorus…inst…chorus to end

©Copyright Tony Funderburk 1989

In Faith, Hope, and Love”