Ahead Lyrics

I'm green

I'm young and I'm free

I'm ready to leave

I'm ready to breathe

In everything

Mine

The world is all mine

I used to believe

And I'm still at that age

Where I hope and I dream

But I've read the poets

I've read Socrates

I've read Dante and Homer and Sophocles

I've sought after knowledge

From a very young age

So what am I to do

I feel freedom

But I, I know the world was never mine

So why does it feel like it is

Reason is rooted in my mind

But so is this restlessness

I feel I could run around the world

Letting my youthful legs carry me

Far as they can go

But oh I know better than that

Dreams are just fantasy not fact

So I'll go and follow the map

I've learned

I've read and I've heard

I've studied and earned

Step by step I have climbed

This mountain of life

Now I see light up ahead

But I haven't summited yet

I know the world keeps on spinning

But it doesn't revolve around me

I've read Plato

Twain and Hemingway

I don't need Huxley

To know that how everything works

Doesn't work around me

I'm inside of time same as it's inside of me

So I'm singing

I, I know the world was never mine

So why does it feel like it is

Reason is rooted in my mind

But so is this restlessness

I feel I could run around the world

Letting my youthful legs carry me

Far as they can go

But oh I know better than that

Dreams are just fantasy not fact

So I'll go and follow the map

Don't know

Where my next page will lead

But I do know this truth

I won't know everything

So I go

With my map in my hand

And my feet on the ground

Traveling straight ahead

And I know

That whatever's ahead

Will cause me to grow

So I'll walk in its stead

As I travel ahead