What You Look For Lyrics

What you look for on a dirty street Is a patch of green beneath your feet A stubborn weed or traveling rose Either one, it lives to grow
What you look for in a stranger's eyes Is if he sees through your disguise How we long to be revealed To be known we might be healed
Send it out into the universe A humble plea, a wish, a broken verse Be the seed that lands inside the cracks Seek the sun and it shines back It shines backs
What you looked for when you were a girl Was a window out into the world From a speeding car or a passing train You were hypnotized just the same
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/what-you-look-for-lyrics-mary-chapin-carpenter.html ] What you look for now that you are grown Is proof of how the time has flown An empty house, a strand of grey And an endless long for yesterday
Send it out into the great elsewhere A kind of hope, a chant, a simple prayer Be the child whose dreams won't ever fade Shout the storm that barricades
What you look for in your darkest hour Is a dirty a street or just a flower
Send it out not knowing where it went To the blue, into the firmament Be the one who wonders at it all
Send it out into the universe A humble plea, a wish, a broken verse Be the seed that lands inside the cracks Seek the sun and it shines back It shines back