JACKSON BROWNE - Looking Into You lyrics

rate me

Well I looked into a house I once lived in<br>Around the time I first went on my own<br>When the roads were as many as the places I had dreamed of<br>And my friends and I were one<br>Now the distance is done and the search has begun<br>I've come to see where my beginnings have gone<br><br>Oh the walls and the windows were still standing<br>And the music could be heard at the door<br>Where the people who kindly endured my odd questions<br>Asked if I came very far<br>And when my silence replied they took me inside<br>Where their children sat playing on the floor<br><br>Well we spoke of the changes that would find us farther on<br>And it left me so warm and so high<br>But as I stepped back outside to the grey morning sun<br>I heard that highway whisper and sigh<br>Are you ready to fly? <br><br>And I looked into the faces all passing by<br>It's an ocean that will never be filled<br>And the house that grows older and finally crumbles<br>That even love cannot rebuild<br>It's a hotel at best, you're here as a guest<br>You oughta make yourself at home while you're waiting for the rest<br><br>Well I looked into dream of the millions<br>That one day the search will be through<br>Now here I stand at the edge of my embattled illusions<br>Looking into you<br><br>The great song traveler passed through here<br>And he opened my eyes to the view<br>And I was among those who called him a prophet<br>And I asked him what was true<br>Until the distance had shown how the road remains alone<br>Now I'm looking in my life for a truth that is my own<br><br>Well I looked into the sky for my anthem<br>And the words and the music came through<br>But words and music can never touch the beauty that I've seen<br>Looking into you -- and that's true