Lyric of the Week: SCARED OF THE ANSWER

What’s wrong with finding the Answer?

What’s wrong with finding the Return?

You make it sound as if it’s the end of the world

As you scream, splutter, and burn

What’s wrong with finding the Answer?

What’s wrong with seeing the light?

Well, I’ll tell you what you’re scared of

You’re scared that the Answer is right!

Ooh, you're running scared

Ooh, you're scared of Returning

Ooh, you're running scared

You're scared of finding the Answer

The Answer destroys your illusions

You’ve convinced yourself of for so long

Your comfortable world tumbles like the Jericho wall

Oh, how you hate it when you’re wrong!

Ooh, you're running scared ...

©2025 The Hesh Inc.

Your comfortable world tumbles like the Jericho wall.

I wrote this one in 1985 or thereabouts, after listening to some of my fellow IDF soldiers in our advanced training course talk in shudderingly frightened terms about people becoming more Jewishly observant (baalei teshuvah, returnees or 'masters of the answer'). What in the world could my comrades have been so scared of, I wonder??

Musically, I imagined something along the lines of Genesis' "Misunderstanding," but I never quite fleshed it out, so this remains a lyric without a tune.