Wednesday, October 09, 2013

What I'm Gonna Find (revised)

i might be
the loneliest man in the world tonight
but that's OK

it might seem
like only sadness rules my eyes
but you haven't seen everything

somewhere in a place you don't know
a hero walked with a face that seems so
similar to mine
if you'd just look closer
you might find

i've been places you ain't seen
i've seen forever in a dream
it took a long time
but that's the way it goes sometimes
the battles i lost
for far too long i paid the cost
what seemed like a dream
now i know is everything
all the good things that i left behind
are not as good as what i'm gonna find

they used to see
the loneliest misfit the world has ever known
they tell me so

i used to be
the one who's dream kept kickin' down the road
but seeds were sown

somewhere in a place you don't know
a hero walked with a face that seems so
similar to mine
if you'd just look closer
you might find

i've been places you ain't seen
i've seen forever in a dream
it took a long time
but that's the way it goes sometimes
the battles i lost
for far too long i paid the cost
what seemed like a dream
now i know is everything
all the good things that i left behind
are not as good as what i'm gonna find

(bridge)
the dream survives and grows up with the dreamer
the heaven's sent this light to you
someday you'll know what to do

i've been places you ain't seen
i've seen forever in a dream
it took a long time
but that's the way it goes sometimes
the battles i lost
for far too long i paid the cost
what seemed like a dream
now i know is everything
all the good things that i left behind
are not as good as what i'm gonna find

(2013 db michel)