HERE AND THERE

HERE AND THERE

I'm going nowhere and I'm getting there fast.

I'm going nowhere and I'm getting there first you can bet your ass.

I'm going somewhere but I don't know where.

Whenever I get there I'll know I'm there.

I have places to go and people to see.

I don't know them and they don't know me.

I have been to places and there were people that I've seen.

Some people were good and some were down right mean.

If I'm here I can't be there, you see.

But if I'm there, here is where I want to be.

When I'm here you'll have to agree,

The person you'll see will always be me.

Wherever I am, that's where I'm at.

Whatever I'm after, that's what I'll get.

I get what I want because that's how you succeed.

Sometimes to hold on to these things you may have to bleed.

There are things that we think we need to survive,

And when we get them we think we have arrived.

The more that we get the more we think we need.

Then just trying to survive turns into greed.

Wherever I go I see people that stare.

It's not because I'm there because they just don't care.

It just seems that I'm not what they bought.

I am what I am and that's what I brought.

You want to go up but you keep going down.

The meaning of life is something you think you have found.

You look left and you look right as you try to find the light.

Round and round you kick and fight and still you won't make it through the night.

You can have everything living your life just so.

You can have it all and still have nothing to show.

Holding on to things of price, there's something you should know.

You don't own anything because you can't take it with you when you go.

STANLEY HENDRIX

7/16/09

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