The Graduate

When you were younger You dreamed of being tall But you discovered Growing up just leaves you feeling small While you were sleeping Everything changed at once You woke in the morning And stepped into the stinging light of dawn You are wandering through the wild You are wondering if and when you’ll reach the other side Weighed down by a heart of stone Bound to a body of broken bones Fragile and feeling alone But the whole story hasn’t been told When you were younger You saw all the world was yours But you don’t have the same eyes And you cannot believe that any more You study the pieces Scattered around the room Failing is fruitful So long as we do not forget to move We are wandering through the wild We are wondering if and when we’ll reach the other side Weighed down by our hearts of stone Bound to these bodies of broken bones We carry such similar loads Turns out we are not alone We could cling to comfort, content to run in place Frozen, cause we fear the cost But how can we expect to find out where we ought to go, unless we get a little lost? We are wandering through the wild We are wondering when, not if, we’ll reach the other side We share a heart of gold We are a body of broken bones When were we ever alone? Together we’ll make our way home