Before Samuel L. Jackson was Nick Fury, there was a 1998 TV movie called Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD starring David Haselhoff. It is better than it sounds.
I found it somewhere in streaming land and was enjoying the ride when out of the blue came the inspiration for a song.
Nick Fury had escaped some sort of death trap when his pal Val comes running up and says, “My God, I thought you were dead!”
“I was,” Nick says calmly, “but now I’m better.”
The song wrote itself. You can find it on Spotify or Amazon Music or YouTube or Apple Music.
I was dead and gone, but now I’m better.
I was lost, but now I’m found.
I was broke in pieces, a lonely debtor,
Now I’m whole and I’m back where I belong.
I fooled myself so long, I thought I’d fooled everyone,
Crossed the solid line that measures right from wrong.
I was so dark, I could not stand the sun,
Now I can see and I’m back where I belong.
When you walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
It helps to have a friend.
I tried it alone, all balled up in fear.
Stubborn pride will get you halfway but you’ll become a slave,
You’ll never make it to the end.
There’s just one way to break those chains and make it clear.
Jesus, walk that path with me together,
The dark is vanquished now, the light is so strong.
I was dead and gone, but now I’m better —
I’m whole again, and I’m back where I belong.
“Back Where I Belong,” © ℗ 2010 w.p. bluhm
