[Verse 1]
Different countries mean
Different ways of thinking, perhaps.
The foreign couple who had
Recently moved in next door.
[Pre-Chorus 1]
He would spray herbicide on the field next to mine.
They told me the drift was bad for our health.
[Chorus 1]
Even when you mean well
And put a lot of thought into things,
It’s just the way of the world that things rarely go quite as planned.
[Verse 2]
I came up with an idea. Since he was a relative,
I thought the problem would be solved if I rented the field and farmed it without using any herbicide.
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I paid the annual rent out of my own pocket and leased the field right next to theirs.
[Chorus 2]
Even when you mean well
And put a lot of thought into things,
It’s just the way of the world that things rarely go quite as planned.
[Verse 3]
They gave me some seeds.
They had grown in their own garden.
I planted them in my field,
And they vigorously thrived.
[Pre-Chorus 3]
Then they said they wanted them back.
I readily agreed.
[Chorus 3]
Even when you mean well
And put a lot of thought into things,
It’s just the way of the world that things rarely go quite as planned.
[Bridge]
I told them they were free to harvest them.
But when I went to the field,
They had already been harvested.
I wish they’d at least left some for me.
[Final Chorus]
Even when you mean well
And put a lot of thought into things,
It’s just the way of the world that things rarely go quite as planned.
[Outro]
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