There's Gotta Be a Road – Lyrics Page 4

I never wanted to make the big statement

I never needed to show that I cared

I only wanted not to hurt anybody

I thought that would be enough

I felt safer as part of the background

Didn't need to be a "point of light"

I saw it all go down on the Ten O'Clock News

But I didn't know just what I could do

Don't want to read about another drive-by shooting

Don't want to hear about another man's war

Don't want to listen to some Neo-Nazi's answers

Sitting on his pile of guns

See the Congressmen say we don't have to

And the governor says we don't need to

Too many people they can't see what's around them

Someone had better open up our eyes

I'm not saying I've got all the answers

Isn't one of us gonna fix it all at once

But I know now that I need to do something

And the clock is running for us all

So I guess that this is my big statement

You know I never thought I'd show that I cared

I only wanted not to hurt anybody

Now I know that's just not enough

REFRAIN 1(a):

When there's one more homeless man sleeping in a doorway

One more big big man striking his wife down

One more gay child dead because of hatred

Another day is dawning, not enough hope to go round

Circling high above the field

The hawks used to watch me watch them fly

The closest I could ever get

Was wishing I could join them in the sky

My hopes and dreams they flew then too

Borne aloft on strong brown wings

I didn't know that they could fall

Lay on the ground like broken things

We have been known to try to fly

Spread our wings we just cut loose

The tether's tight and stops us short

We fall and flutter back to roost

Back on the ground we wonder why

Blame the sky because it called

Yearn for keys to set us free

And curse the hawks when they don't fall

I don't fly much anymore

My dreams they stay close to the ground

But if there's joy I'll find it somewhere

And if I happen to be airborne

I won't look down

The road goes by the old house, the lake's still clean and blue

Everything that I remember is like it was still new

The trees have grown a little

The swing still hangs beneath the big one

And up there on the front porch I'm still sitting there with you

Though it's been so many days, so many miles away

Something here just pulls me back like I belong to yesterday

And after all the plans and dreams I had

And all the wrong turns down the hard roads

All I ever wanted was to never go away

Sometimes all the things you have are less than what you lack

And sometimes you have to burn your eyes before your sight comes back

But I didn't know, so I had to leave

Find all the things I thought were out there

When all I ever wanted was at the start of my own track

I'm going back to find the place I still see in my mind

Then I'll try to put together all the pieces I can find

Maybe then I'll show you

What I should have shown you all along

All I ever wanted was to be right by your side

And after all the plans and dreams I had

And all the wrong turns now I know

All I ever wanted was to be right by your side