The Search

I left to search this troubled world

Curious what I might see.

I left to see the distant lands

And set my dreaming free.

I walked along the empty roads

And pathways through the woods.

And crowded cities thick with life

And spots where no ones stood.

(I cannot walk this road again

I cannot sing this song.

I cannot feel you next to me

Now that you are gone.)

I've seen the rising of the sun

As red as blood could be.

And I've seen the brightest moon

Glowing on the sea.

Misty mountains filled my view

And deserts bare and dry.

I've yet to see the ocean depths

Or touch the evening sky.

(I cannot walk this road again

I cannot sing this song.

I cannot feel you next to me

Now that you are gone.)

I've walked atop the glaciers
And through the midnight caves.
I've seen the birth of new life
And old men in their graves.

I've seen a miracle
But doubted all I knew.
I never found a heaven on earth
But I did find you.

(I cannot walk this road again

I cannot sing this song.

I cannot feel you next to me

Now that you are gone.)

I don't need a home

to say I'm coming back.

with all the wandering I've done

I've not found the thing I lack.

Of all the steps I've taken

I thought that I might find.

Some sweet escape, a last relief

to ease my troubled mind.

(I cannot walk this road again

I cannot sing this song.

I cannot feel you next to me

Now that you are gone.)