What You Look For - Mary Chapin Carpenter

What you look for on a dirty street

Is a patch of green beneath your feet

A stubborn w**d or traveling rose

Either one it lives to grow

What you look for in a stranger's eyes

Is if he sees through your disguise

How we long to be revealed

To be known we might be healed

Send it out into the universe

A humble plea a wish a broken verse

Be the seed that lands inside the cracks

Seek the sun and it shines back

It shines backs

What you looked for when you were a girl

Was a window out into the world

From a speeding car or a passing train

You were hypnotized just the same

What you look for now that you are grown

Is proof of how the time has flown

An empty house a strand of grey

And an endless long for yesterday

Send it out into the great elsewhere

A kind of hope a chant a simple prayer

Be the child whose dreams won't ever fade

Shout the storm that barricades

What you look for in your darkest hour

Is a dirty a street or just a flower

Send it out not knowing where it went

To the blue into the firmament

Be the one who wonders at it all

Send it out into the universe

A humble plea a wish a broken verse

Be the seed that lands inside the cracks

Seek the sun and it shines back

It shines back