Monday, January 7, 2008 - Someday Never Comes
I wrote this song sometime in 2003. I found an old notebook I had from the days when I worked as a loan officer with Coast Federal Bank. I found the page I wrote it on, and it didn’t have anything else written on it but “SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!!” It was capitalized and underlined several times, like the four exclamation marks weren’t a reminder enough!
So what did these words mean? Here’s the story:
I was lucky enough to go through my banking experiences in the mid to late nineties. Between 1995 and 1999, I worked as a loan officer for (take a deep breath) Great Western Bank, Coast Federal Bank, Home Savings of America, Washington Mutual, Norwest Mortgage, then finally Wells Fargo. Two words: bank mergers. At the time, because of the changes, I considered myself unfortunate, but didn’t realize that all these moves were helping me more than hurting me. From one bank to another, I was absorbing the art of sales and various management methods like a sponge. In June of 1999, I obtained my real estate broker’s license. By early 2000, I started my own real estate and mortgage company. I’ve been self-employed ever since.
With the exception of Great Western Bank, I should mention that never did I quit from any of these banks! I worked for Coast all of eight months, before hearing that Home Savings was going to purchase us. In my days with Coast, I was under a remarkable manager named Mark Chakerian. He was less than forty years old at the time and was already their regional manager, in charge of about forty different loan officers! Like everyone else, I learned a lot from this man, and totally respected and looked up to him. I went to one of his sales meetings, and I will never forget his talk. This, in summary, is what he said:
“Remember when you were young, you’d go to the store with your mother, and you’d see that shining brand new bicycle, and of course, you’d ask her to buy it for you, and she’d say: “someday, son, someday.” Then you get older, and instead of a bike, it’s now a car! “Someday, son, someday.” Then before you know it, you have your own kids, and you hear yourself say: “Someday, son, someday.” You also dream about buying a house, and you say to yourself: “someday”. How often do you hear people say this? All the time! But nobody ever realizes it.
We’ll I’m here to tell you…SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!! Let me repeat: SOMEDAY NEVER COMES!!!! (He wrote it on the board exactly how it appears here) You have to go after what you need and want as soon as possible! (Your treasure?) Whenever you catch yourself say “someday”, that means you are procrastinating! Urgency is the most underrated word in the English dictionary! The best time to buy a house is now! The best time to accomplish anything is now, not tomorrow, not later, or “someday”!
Here are my lyrics to “Someday Never Comes”:
The sun shines every morning
Your heart beats like a drum
Sunflowers bloom in the springtime
My dreams, keep you alive
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
Those eyes shine with excuses
These lips whisper with lies
Our lives come with a promise
Though broken, yet tantalize
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
Big words give u protection
Deep thoughts keep me at bay
Someday we’ll have everything
Just you listen, to what I say
Someday never comes…Someday never comes
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
You promised…me the world! You promised me…your soul!
Someday never comes…Someday….. never…..
This is also the title track to XXRub’s first cd!
To hear this song, please go to www.myspace.com/xxrub
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