All I Can See - Brendan James

I want to walk through this doorway

I want to open my mind

I want to pledge my allegiance to all I can find

I want a car that will crash through the barriers

To a road no one knows

I want to feel less control, more abandon

I want to land far from home

The revolution of the earth around the sun

Is the perfect lesson of how it should be

So if I cannot learn

To journey and return

To never rest till I’ve seen all I can see…

I want to learn a completely new language

One I don’t understand

I want to help someone lost, someone helpless

With the strength of my hand

I want to come to the base of a statue built

Before they counted the years

And there I’ll fall with my face in my hands and cry

And feel their hope in my tears

The revolution of the earth around the sun

Is the perfect lesson of how it should be

So if I cannot learn

To journey and return

To never rest till I’ve seen all I can see…

Train rides and pastures colliding…

Colors and customs i’ve never seen…

I know I, yes I know I

I know I will stumble

But time is precious, my friend

Those who journey can easily understand

The more they see the more they’ll learn

The more that they will be

So this I swear to you, and this I swear to me

I’ll never rest till I’ve seen all I can see

No, I’ll never rest till I’ve seen all i can see

I want to know where the strength of a person lies

In their past or their future

Is it in the way that they hurt or they love themselves

Or is it all an illusion?

I want to crawl from this skin that i’m painted in…

Body, please let it give

I want to find the creator of all good things

And ask what it means to live