Present Day or 1492 - John Elliott
Lyrics by：John Elliott
Composed by：John Elliott
All the pretty girls in Tulsa
Got me pretty well figured out
But I am not ashamed
Because I know what love's about
We're all crossed communications
Walkie-talkie telephones
I can feel it in my body balls and bones
When it ended it was obvious
It was there beside my bed
Once it came to me like silence
Like a book I hadn't read
There were bicycles
And tricycles and unicycles flew
It was either present day or 1492
There were Incans who where thinkin'
There were mountains taught to move
There were Africans inside of them too
There were staircases
And haircases and pottery and barns
All the men still had their weapons
All the women had their charms
There were highways there were byways
There were miles and miles of road
Some went somewhere some went nowhere
Some went to another road
And the roads went up
The mountains where the horses couldn't go
It was almost an advantage
'Till the guns began to glow
I imagine naked women
I imagine naked men
I imagine naken children crying
Looking up at them
There was no way to avoid it
There was nothing they could do
It was either present day or 1492
Yeah when the fight began
I'm sure they knew it meant
That they were through
It was either present day or 1492
All the pretty girls in Tulsa
Got me pretty well figured out
But I am not ashamed
Because I know what love's about
