Sitting outside: porch couch one night in October
Thinking I’m right where I need to be,
Or, if anything, maybe a little early.
And I didn’t think forward, I didn’t think behind,
I just lounged out laughing, weight angled on my side.
Now I’m looking back through that rearview mirror
Where the objects are always looking closer than they appear.
And I remember sitting on that stool
Physics class, junior year of high school
Head furled, thinking tough and out ahead,
Chin rested on my elbow, taking notes on displacement
While all I heard was how we can live, as long as hard as we can,
We’ll still end up with this zero value now
If we never run it out of our hometowns
So now I’m ready to run, ready to go,
Sift through that shore, whipped by that snow today,
Set forth and on my way.
And I’m ready to go, and I feel alive,
Hit it summer to summer then off I’ll fly away
And get myself displaced.
And I remember back in 2005, sometime around January, late
That speech I gave about how I would become president at age 38.
And I think I had no concept of age back then,
But at least I had myself a cute little life plan.
With the purity of my youthful mind
Unadulterated by any kind of x-ray eyes.
So look back at true honesty:
What’s always stood out to me.
It’s a look back at true honesty:
With my spectrumed mind obsessing over these things.
And I always held on to them so dear,
But now somehow they’re lost throughout the years.
Oh I held on to them so dear,
But now somehow they’re lost throughout years.
Somehow lost along the way and throughout the years…
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