WHAT IS?

What could have been

Missed the only train

“What should have been”

We only ask in vain

What we we aim for, we exchange for

Where we’ve landed

You can open up the present every day

You can cry for the one that got away

Like the rain at dawn,

And the clouds roll on

Empty handed

We could miss all of this,

If we wish it all away

I wanna wake up

In the moment,

Receiving what is

What is, what is

Oooh,

What is, what is

What is

Oooh

Sometimes memory tricks or trades

Sometimes the photograph, it fades

So I counterfeit

A creation myth

To understand me

I went back to my old hometown

The whole scene almost knocked me down

I thought I’d left for good

But the Healer would

Not unhand me

We could miss all of this,

If we wish it all away

I wanna wake up

In the moment,

Receiving what is

What is, what is

Oooh,

What is, what is

What is

Oooh

I can see the end of it

Every vector pointing

To the wondrous why and when of it

And all the lines rejoining

At the still point of the turning world

Where the past and future gather

What was and is and is to come

What is ever after

We could miss all of this,

If we wish it all away

I wanna wake up

In the moment,

Receiving what is

What is, what is

Oooh,

What is, what is

What is

Oooh

What we aim for, we exchange for where we've landed

Like the rain at dawn and the clouds roll on empty handed

I wanna wake up in this moment

I wanna wake up in this moment,

Receiving what is