What You Look For Lyrics - Age Of Miracles - Mary Chapin Carpenter

What you look for on a dirty street 

Is a patch of green beneath your feet 

A stubborn weed 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 

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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 

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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