Window to Space

There's a kid who sees the world
 A selfish kid: a good kid: a good kid
 By his own means he knew the price of life
 By his own means he knew the price for you
 He must reveal it now, but to who?
 A cluttered world. A damaged world
 A lost world he lives in
 He stammers for the door but it is shut
 Get out of the bars young one
 Reach for the stars young one
 Reach for the stars and be free
 Seek shelter in voices you hear in the night
 Rid yourself of the world that surrounds you
 They didn't care
 Now you should go
 Seek to find all that is
 Reach high for life
 "I'll search for answer and I'll search for friend
 And I'll search for you 'til I'm gone.
 Now I must go be free."
 Climb towards the sun and burn your fingers on life
 If you're lucky you'll burn your body and soul
 Remember the dreams, remember the visions
 Remember the morals and values you had
 And never forget the view from above
 "Shatter me true 'til I'm gone and alone;
 heal me 'til I'm whole"
 See her lying there in the shade
 Listening to the sounds of the green
 Wishing, waiting, wanting so bad
 She seeks the knowledge of the dream you once had
 And wonders if you can recall that day
 You stood in the park while it got dark
 And conversed among the souls of the dead
 One hundred billion people sifting through the sands
 Looking for love and searching for truth
 How misguided they've become since their youth
 Become since their youth
 Twisted and rotting and smelling of death
 Their minds lie wasted and yearning for breath
 And wanting and wanting some air
 They crumble and fall onto the ground in despair
 And the gods look from the heavens
 And the men look from their graves
 And the gods cry "Damn!" and a light flashes forth
 Silence is fallen all over the land
 And a black void settles over the night
 From the filth and the blood and the crowd does emerge
 An angry young man with a poem in hand
 A prayer in his head
 A blessing in heart
 And an answer to all on the tip of his tongue
 "Let the smoke clear
 Look upwards my friends
 See the beginning of life
 See life's tragic ends
 And never forget the boys who have died
 For a cause not their own but of the wise"
 We still survive but the sun has been lost and it falls to blaze
 Lost in pollution's excretion of haze
 Individuals do emerge but so few and apart
 They are unseen by the evil and stark
 And the landscape that bears the immortals who share
 Who give of themselves and receive only care
 The care of one hundred trillion people in space
 And the care of one hundred billion who live on the place
 The ones far out and the ones who discover
 Are the ones who inspire a man and his lover
 From the dawn of time to the reaches of space
 Companionship and trust are the keys to fate
 We want to fear all of the knowledge that we lust
 Why do we work? Why do we play?
 Why do we kill? Why do we live?
 I want to be happy and I want to know sad
 I want to have knowledge and I want to be dumb
 I wish for the day, and it will come
 That I know all the answers
 And I know what to be and I know what to search for
 And I know where to achieve
 And there it shall lie
 My corpse in the gutter
 With knowledge and love
 And the taste of the better
 Looking through the window to space