Legend In This Own Mind

This story started at a tennis match observing a player losing his temper big time and believing his playing skills were legendary. They were not! Little did I know that years later, after the song was written, the story would apply to our nearest and dearest politicians.

Thanks to Fred Kosak for adding his mandolin to this 2023 version.

• Legend In This Own Mind Lyrics

  He arrived on the scene, living his dream
  For others to see, envy, and believe
  Delivering judgment at every turn
  His trail littered with things to learn
  He came from another place another time
  Always central to his mind’s eye
  
  CHORUS
  A legend on his own mind
  Stories … passed down in time
  A hero? to some a wise one
  To most tales of the lonesome
  

  Repetition, on a mission well above the rest
  In an orbit, circling his own self
  A transmitting tower on a private hill
  Broadcasting for all to hear
  Drunk from an intoxicating brew
  Perception, misconception legal fiction too
  

  CHORUS
  

  Bridge
  While those in his past, knew him as the best
  He’s a stranger now being put to the test
  Only inside to him little has changed
  Words without caution, blow by with the wind
  
  Too many tales for too long stretched too far
  Springing back to bite this self-proclaimed star
  He just does not get it too late in the game
  Everything around him already changed.
  Story out now, spread by that wind
  Told without caution without regard to him.
  
  CHORUS
  
  © Geoff Wolf 2012