Mary Chapin Carpenter - What You Look For Lyrics
What you look for on a dirty streetIs a patch of green beneath your feetA stubborn weed or a traveling roseEither one lives to growWhat you look for in a stranger's eyesIs if he sees through your disguiseHow we long to be revealedTo be known we might be healedSend it out into the UniverseA humble plea, a wish, a broken verseBe a seed that lands inside the cracksSeek the sun and it shines backWhat you looked for when you were a girlWas a window out into the worldFrom a speeding car or a passing trainYou were hypnotized just the sameAnd what you look for now that you are grownIs proof of how time has flownAn empty house, a strand of greyAnd an endless longing for yesterdaySend it out into the Great ElsewhereA kind of hope, a chant, a simple prayerBe the child whose dreams won't ever fadeShout and storm the barricadesWhat you look for in your darkest hourIs a dirty street with just a flower...Send it out not knowing where it wentInto the blue, into the firmamentBe the one who wonders at it allSend it out into the UniverseA humble plea, a wish, a broken verseBe a seed that lands inside the cracksSeek the sun and it shines backIt shines back