Variety

I should be happy
Prime of my life
Singular wild and free
Nothing out of the ordinary
But I still want to be everything
Have you every wanted to be everything?
Sometimes the dreaming gets so overwhelming
So many places, so many places
Take me down to the ocean to the ever-lapping shore
Fly me high in the mountains, where it’s all one open door
Drive me into the city where the crazies come out at night
And I’ll be one of them, I’ll be one of them this time
I should be willing
I should be down for the adventure
Standing up and stabbing westward
On and along the trail
Pick up my things and bail
But there’s so much unfinished
So much open-ended business
And sadness and pleasure so close together
I can’t seem to tell the difference
Better take it all, I guess
Give me Friday night apartments with red-faced tears of laughter
Jumping up and down, drinking happy ever-after
Build a wall of good people and you can’t beat a young man’s pride
So I’ll be one of them, I’ll be one of them this time
Open my eyes and make me wonder
Show me all there is to see
Give me music and more people
Dirty magazines and poetry
Give me variety in all its forms
Give me everything, then give me more and more and more
Give me something I can taste, that I can see
That I can feel, that I can be
Variety
Variety
Variety
Variety won’t bring her back to me
I should be happy
Prime of my life
Single and wild and far from free
And bound by all this variety
And now there’s too much of everything
Did I ever really want to be everything?
And now the memories are so overwhelming:
So many places
So many places where she used to be